Vulnerability   
Search   
    Search 324607 CVE descriptions
and 145615 test descriptions,
access 10,000+ cross references.
Tests   CVE   All  

Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.60922
Category:Fedora Local Security Checks
Title:Fedora Core 8 FEDORA-2008-3392 (perl)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing an update to perl
announced via advisory FEDORA-2008-3392.

ChangeLog:

* Tue Apr 29 2008 Marcela Maslanova - 4:5.8.8-39
- perl-5.8.8-CVE-2008-1927.patch - buffer overflow, when using unicode
characters in regexp

References:

[ 1 ] Bug #443928 - CVE-2008-1927 perl: double free on regular expressions with utf8 characters
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443928

Solution: Apply the appropriate updates.

This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use
su -c 'yum update perl' at the command line.
For more information, refer to Managing Software with yum,
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2008-3392

Risk factor : High

CVSS Score:
7.5

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-1927
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html
BugTraq ID: 28928
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28928
Bugtraq: 20090120 rPSA-2009-0011-1 perl (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500210/100/0/threaded
Debian Security Information: DSA-1556 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1556
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00601.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00607.html
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-17.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:100
http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=48156
http://osvdb.org/44588
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10579
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0522.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0532.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020253
http://secunia.com/advisories/29948
http://secunia.com/advisories/30025
http://secunia.com/advisories/30326
http://secunia.com/advisories/30624
http://secunia.com/advisories/31208
http://secunia.com/advisories/31328
http://secunia.com/advisories/31467
http://secunia.com/advisories/31604
http://secunia.com/advisories/31687
http://secunia.com/advisories/33314
http://secunia.com/advisories/33937
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2008:017 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-2
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2265/references
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2361
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2424
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0422
XForce ISS Database: perl-utf8-dos(41996)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41996
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2007-5116
AIX APAR: IZ10220
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ10220
AIX APAR: IZ10244
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ10244
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html
BugTraq ID: 26350
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26350
Bugtraq: 20071110 FLEA-2007-0063-1 perl (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483563/100/0/threaded
Bugtraq: 20071112 FLEA-2007-0069-1 perl (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483584/100/0/threaded
Bugtraq: 20080108 VMSA-2008-0001 Moderate OpenPegasus PAM Authentication Buffer Overflow and updated service console packages (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485936/100/0/threaded
Bugtraq: 20080123 UPDATED VMSA-2008-0001.1 Moderate OpenPegasus PAM Authentication Buffer Overflow and updated service console packages (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/486859/100/0/threaded
Cert/CC Advisory: TA07-352A
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html
Debian Security Information: DSA-1400 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1400
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-28.xml
HPdes Security Advisory: HPSBTU02311
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=120352263023774&w=2
HPdes Security Advisory: SSRT080001
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:207
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=323571
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=378131
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000002.html
http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.023.html
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10669
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0966.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1011.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1018899
http://secunia.com/advisories/27479
http://secunia.com/advisories/27515
http://secunia.com/advisories/27531
http://secunia.com/advisories/27546
http://secunia.com/advisories/27548
http://secunia.com/advisories/27570
http://secunia.com/advisories/27613
http://secunia.com/advisories/27756
http://secunia.com/advisories/27936
http://secunia.com/advisories/28167
http://secunia.com/advisories/28368
http://secunia.com/advisories/28387
http://secunia.com/advisories/28993
http://secunia.com/advisories/29074
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1018985.1-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-231524-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-31524-1
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2007:024 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_24_sr.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-552-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3724
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4238
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4255
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0064
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0641
XForce ISS Database: perl-unicode-bo(38270)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38270
CopyrightCopyright (c) 2008 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com

This is only one of 145615 vulnerability tests in our test suite. Find out more about running a complete security audit.

To run a free test of this vulnerability against your system, register below.




© 1998-2025 E-Soft Inc. All rights reserved.