Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.704172
Category:	Debian Local Security Checks
Title:	Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-4172-1)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'perl' package(s) announced via the DSA-4172-1 advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'perl' package(s) announced via the DSA-4172-1 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the implementation of the Perl programming language. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2018-6797 Brian Carpenter reported that a crafted regular expression could cause a heap buffer write overflow, with control over the bytes written. CVE-2018-6798 Nguyen Duc Manh reported that matching a crafted locale dependent regular expression can cause a heap-based buffer over-read and potentially information disclosure. CVE-2018-6913 GwanYeong Kim reported that 'pack()' could cause a heap buffer write overflow with a large item count. For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 5.20.2-3+deb8u10. The oldstable distribution (jessie) update contains only a fix for CVE-2018-6913. For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 5.24.1-3+deb9u3. We recommend that you upgrade your perl packages. For the detailed security status of perl please refer to its security tracker page at: [link moved to references] Affected Software/OS: 'perl' package(s) on Debian 8, Debian 9. Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 7.5 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2018-6913 BugTraq ID: 103953 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103953 https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=131844 Debian Security Information: DSA-4172 (Google Search) https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4172 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-01 https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00009.html http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040681 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-2/
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