The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'perl' package(s) announced via the DSA-696-1 advisory. Paul Szabo discovered a vulnerability in the File::Path::rmtree function of perl, allowing a different user to exploit a race condition to create setuid binaries in the directory tree
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 68 |
---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | CAN-2005-0448 | 23 Feb 202418:06 | – | cve |
![]() | CVE-2005-0448 | 2 May 200504:00 | – | cve |
![]() | CVE-2008-2827 | 23 Jun 200819:41 | – | cve |
![]() | CVE-2008-5302 | 1 Dec 200817:30 | – | cve |
![]() | CVE-2008-5303 | 1 Dec 200817:30 | – | cve |
![]() | [SECURITY] [DSA 696-1] New perl packages fix privilege escalation | 22 Mar 200510:56 | – | debian |
![]() | [SECURITY] [DSA 696-1] New perl packages fix privilege escalation | 22 Mar 200510:56 | – | debian |
![]() | [SECURITY] [DSA 1678-1] New perl packages fix privilege escalation | 3 Dec 200806:15 | – | debian |
![]() | CVE-2005-0448 | 2 May 200500:00 | – | ubuntucve |
![]() | FreeBSD : perl -- Directory Permissions Race Condition (4a99d61c-f23a-11dd-9f55-0030843d3802) | 4 Feb 200900:00 | – | nessus |
Source | Link |
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debian | www.debian.org/security/2005/DSA-696-1 |
security-tracker | www.security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-696 |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.53525");
script_cve_id("CVE-2005-0448");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2008-01-17 21:56:38 +0000 (Thu, 17 Jan 2008)");
script_version("2024-02-01T14:37:10+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-01 14:37:10 +0000 (Thu, 01 Feb 2024)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"1.2");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
script_name("Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-696-1)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2008 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Debian Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/debian_linux", "ssh/login/packages", re:"ssh/login/release=DEB3\.0");
script_xref(name:"Advisory-ID", value:"DSA-696-1");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2005/DSA-696-1");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-696");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'perl' package(s) announced via the DSA-696-1 advisory.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Paul Szabo discovered another vulnerability in the File::Path::rmtree function of perl, the popular scripting language. When a process is deleting a directory tree, a different user could exploit a race condition to create setuid binaries in this directory tree, provided that he already had write permissions in any subdirectory of that tree.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 5.6.1-8.9.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 5.8.4-8.
We recommend that you upgrade your perl packages.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"'perl' package(s) on Debian 3.0.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please install the updated package(s).");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-deb.inc");
release = dpkg_get_ssh_release();
if(!release)
exit(0);
res = "";
report = "";
if(release == "DEB3.0") {
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libcgi-fast-perl", ver:"5.6.1-8.9", rls:"DEB3.0"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libperl-dev", ver:"5.6.1-8.9", rls:"DEB3.0"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libperl5.6", ver:"5.6.1-8.9", rls:"DEB3.0"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"perl", ver:"5.6.1-8.9", rls:"DEB3.0"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"perl-base", ver:"5.6.1-8.9", rls:"DEB3.0"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"perl-debug", ver:"5.6.1-8.9", rls:"DEB3.0"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"perl-doc", ver:"5.6.1-8.9", rls:"DEB3.0"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"perl-modules", ver:"5.6.1-8.9", rls:"DEB3.0"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"perl-suid", ver:"5.6.1-8.9", rls:"DEB3.0"))) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
exit(0);
}
exit(0);
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