CVSS2
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
EPSS
Percentile
91.9%
Updated Perl packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5.
This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.
Perl is a high-level programming language commonly used for system administration utilities and Web programming.
A flaw was found in Perlβs regular expression engine. Specially crafted input to a regular expression can cause Perl to improperly allocate memory, possibly resulting in arbitrary code running with the permissions of the user running Perl. (CVE-2007-5116)
Users of Perl are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to resolve this issue.
Red Hat would like to thank Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry for properly disclosing this issue.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2007:0966 and
# CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:0966 respectively.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(37788);
script_version("1.16");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");
script_cve_id("CVE-2007-5116");
script_bugtraq_id(26350);
script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2007:0966");
script_name(english:"CentOS 3 / 4 / 5 : perl (CESA-2007:0966)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"Updated Perl packages that fix a security issue are now available for
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5.
This update has been rated as having important security impact by the
Red Hat Security Response Team.
Perl is a high-level programming language commonly used for system
administration utilities and Web programming.
A flaw was found in Perl's regular expression engine. Specially
crafted input to a regular expression can cause Perl to improperly
allocate memory, possibly resulting in arbitrary code running with the
permissions of the user running Perl. (CVE-2007-5116)
Users of Perl are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain a backported patch to resolve this issue.
Red Hat would like to thank Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry for properly
disclosing this issue."
);
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2007-November/014362.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?a965069c"
);
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2007-November/014363.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?e5ec54e1"
);
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2007-November/014366.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?b0240323"
);
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2007-November/014367.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?491addd6"
);
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2007-November/014391.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?3eb819b9"
);
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2007-November/014392.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?bf4a7085"
);
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2007-November/014399.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?7e14b38e"
);
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2007-November/014400.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?e35b1785"
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected perl packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_cwe_id(119);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-CGI");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-CPAN");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-DB_File");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-suidperl");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:centos:centos:3");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:centos:centos:4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:centos:centos:5");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2007/11/07");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2007/11/05");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2009/04/23");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"CentOS Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/CentOS/release", "Host/CentOS/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/CentOS/release");
if (isnull(release) || "CentOS" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "CentOS");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "CentOS(?: Linux)? release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "CentOS");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^(3|4|5)([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "CentOS 3.x / 4.x / 5.x", "CentOS " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/CentOS/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && "ia64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "CentOS", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-3", reference:"perl-5.8.0-97.EL3")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-3", reference:"perl-CGI-2.89-97.EL3")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-3", reference:"perl-CPAN-1.61-97.EL3")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-3", reference:"perl-DB_File-1.806-97.EL3")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-3", reference:"perl-suidperl-5.8.0-97.EL3")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-4", cpu:"i386", reference:"perl-5.8.5-36.el4_5.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-4", cpu:"ia64", reference:"perl-5.8.5-36.c4.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-4", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"perl-5.8.5-36.el4_5.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-4", cpu:"i386", reference:"perl-suidperl-5.8.5-36.el4_5.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-4", cpu:"ia64", reference:"perl-suidperl-5.8.5-36.c4.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-4", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"perl-suidperl-5.8.5-36.el4_5.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-5", reference:"perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-5", reference:"perl-suidperl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_HOLE,
extra : rpm_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "perl / perl-CGI / perl-CPAN / perl-DB_File / perl-suidperl");
}