OpenPKG Security Advisory
OpenPKG-SA-2005.025
Publisher Name: OpenPKG GmbH Publisher Home: http://openpkg.com/ Advisory Id (public): OpenPKG-SA-2005.025 Advisory Type: OpenPKG Security Advisory (SA) Advisory Directory: http://openpkg.com/go/OpenPKG-SA Advisory Document: http://openpkg.com/go/OpenPKG-SA-2005.025 Advisory Published: 2008-08-07 22:01 UTC Issue Id (internal): OpenPKG-SI-20051203.02 Issue First Created: 2005-12-03 Issue Last Modified: 2006-11-28 Issue Revision: 05
Subject Name: Perl Subject Summary: Practical Extraction and Reporting Language Subject Home: http://www.perl.com/ Subject Versions: * <= 5.8.7 Vulnerability Id: CVE-2005-3962 Vulnerability Scope: global (not OpenPKG specific) Attack Feasibility: run-time Attack Vector: local system Attack Impact: denial of service, arbitrary code execution Description: According to a security advisory from Dyad Security [0], an integer overflow bug exists in the Perl [1] programming language. The integer overflow is in the format string functionality (Perl_sv_vcatpvfn) of Perl and allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary memory and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers with large values. References: [0] http://www.dyadsecurity.com/perl-0002.html [1] http://www.perl.org/ [2] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3962
Primary Package Name: perl Primary Package Home: http://openpkg.org/go/package/perl Affected Distribution: Affected Branch: Affected Package: OpenPKG Community 2.3-SOLID perl-5.8.6-2.3.0 OpenPKG Community 2.4-SOLID perl-5.8.7-2.4.0 OpenPKG Community 2.5-SOLID perl-5.8.7-2.5.0 OpenPKG Community CURRENT perl-5.8.7-20050921 Corrected Distribution: Corrected Branch: Corrected Package: OpenPKG Community 2.3-SOLID perl-5.8.6-2.3.1 OpenPKG Community 2.4-SOLID perl-5.8.7-2.4.1 OpenPKG Community 2.5-SOLID perl-5.8.7-2.5.1 OpenPKG Community CURRENT perl-5.8.7-20051203
