GLSA 201311-17: Perl: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Severity:	high
Title:	Perl: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date:	11/28/2013
Bugs:	#249629, #313565, #362025, #386357
ID:	201311-17

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Perl, the worst of which could allow a local attacker to cause a Denial of Service condition.

Background

Perl is Larry Wall’s Practical Extraction and Report Language.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
dev-lang/perl	< 5.12.3-r1	>= 5.12.3-r1	All supported architectures

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Perl. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A local attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition or perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running the application. A context-dependent attacker could 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-5.12.3-r1"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201311-17.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.