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Fedora Core 11 FEDORA-2009-8868 (perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Fedora Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

6.8

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

14 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2 announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-8868.

Insight

Insight

Update Information: Off-by-one error in the bzinflate function in Bzip2.xs in the Compress-Raw-Bzip2 module before 2.018 for Perl allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application hang or crash) via a crafted bzip2 compressed stream that triggers a buffer overflow, a related issue to CVE-2009-1391. ChangeLog: * Thu Aug 20 2009 Marcela Maláová - 2.020-1 - 518278 CVE-2009-1884, update to the latest release

Solution

Solution

Apply the appropriate updates. This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use su -c 'yum update perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2' at the command line. For more information, refer to Managing Software with yum, available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2009-8868

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