4.6 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.002 Low
EPSS
Percentile
51.1%
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2005:880
Perl is a high-level programming language commonly used for system
administration utilities and Web programming.
An integer overflow bug was found in Perl’s format string processor. It is
possible for an attacker to cause perl to crash or execute arbitrary code
if the attacker is able to process a malicious format string. This issue
is only exploitable through a script which passes arbitrary untrusted
strings to the format string processor. The Common Vulnerabilities and
Exposures project assigned the name CVE-2005-3962 to this issue.
Users of Perl are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain backported patches to correct these issues as well as fixes for
several bugs.
Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2005-December/074659.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2005-December/074666.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2005-December/074679.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2005-December/074683.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2005-December/074684.html
Affected packages:
perl
perl-suidperl
Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005:880
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CentOS | 4 | ia64 | perl | < 5.8.5-24.RHEL4 | perl-5.8.5-24.RHEL4.ia64.rpm |
CentOS | 4 | ia64 | perl-suidperl | < 5.8.5-24.RHEL4 | perl-suidperl-5.8.5-24.RHEL4.ia64.rpm |
CentOS | 4 | alpha | perl | < 5.8.5-24.RHEL4 | perl-5.8.5-24.RHEL4.alpha.rpm |
CentOS | 4 | alpha | perl-suidperl | < 5.8.5-24.RHEL4 | perl-suidperl-5.8.5-24.RHEL4.alpha.rpm |
CentOS | 4 | s390 | perl | < 5.8.5-24.RHEL4 | perl-5.8.5-24.RHEL4.s390.rpm |
CentOS | 4 | s390 | perl-suidperl | < 5.8.5-24.RHEL4 | perl-suidperl-5.8.5-24.RHEL4.s390.rpm |
CentOS | 4 | s390x | perl | < 5.8.5-24.RHEL4 | perl-5.8.5-24.RHEL4.s390x.rpm |
CentOS | 4 | s390x | perl-suidperl | < 5.8.5-24.RHEL4 | perl-suidperl-5.8.5-24.RHEL4.s390x.rpm |
CentOS | 4 | i386 | perl | < 5.8.5-24.RHEL4 | perl-5.8.5-24.RHEL4.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 4 | i386 | perl-suidperl | < 5.8.5-24.RHEL4 | perl-suidperl-5.8.5-24.RHEL4.i386.rpm |