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gentooGentoo FoundationGLSA-201401-11
HistoryJan 19, 2014 - 12:00 a.m.

Perl, Locale Maketext Perl module: Multiple vulnerabilities

2014-01-1900:00:00
Gentoo Foundation
security.gentoo.org
24

CVSS2

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

AI Score

9.2

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.019

Percentile

88.9%

Background

Perl is Larry Wall’s Practical Extraction and Report Language. Locale::Maketext is a Perl module - framework for localization.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Perl and Locale::Maketext Perl module. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A context-dependent attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Perl users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/perl-5.16.3"

All Locale::Maketext users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
 ">=perl-core/locale-maketext-1.230.0"
OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Gentooanyalldev-lang/perl< 5.16.3UNKNOWN
Gentooanyallperl-core/locale-maketext< 1.230.0UNKNOWN

CVSS2

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

AI Score

9.2

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.019

Percentile

88.9%