Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.60966
Category:	Mandrake Local Security Checks
Title:	Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2008:100 (perl)
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing an update to perl announced via advisory MDVSA-2008:100. A double free vulnerability in Perl 5.8.8 and earlier versions, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via a crafted regular expression containing UTF8 characters. The updated packages have been patched to prevent this. Affected: 2007.1, 2008.0, Corporate 3.0, Corporate 4.0, Multi Network Firewall 2.0 Solution: To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you. http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2008:100 Risk factor : Medium CVSS Score: 5.0
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
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