Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.1.10.2016.0191
Category:	Mageia Linux Local Security Checks
Title:	Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2016-0191)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the 'perl' package(s) announced via the MGASA-2016-0191 advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the 'perl' package(s) announced via the MGASA-2016-0191 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: The regex engine got into an infinite loop because of the malformation. It is trying to back-up over a sequence of UTF-8 continuation bytes. The character just before the sequence should be a start byte. If it's not, there is a malformation which results in 'hang' of regexp matching and CPU exhaustion (CVE-2015-8853). Affected Software/OS: 'perl' package(s) on Mageia 5. Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 5.0 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-8853 BugTraq ID: 86707 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/86707 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183592.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-75 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/5 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/7 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-2/
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