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Debian Security Advisory DSA 727-1 (libconvert-uulib-perl)

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.5

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

16 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to libconvert-uulib-perl announced via advisory DSA 727-1.

Insight

Insight

Mark Martinec and Robert Lewis discovered a buffer overflow in Convert::UUlib, a Perl interface to the uulib library, which may result in the execution of arbitrary code. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.201-2woody1. For the testing (sarge) and unstable (sid) distributions this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.5.1-1. We recommend that you upgrade your libconvert-uulib-perl package.

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20727-1

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