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Fedora Core 11 FEDORA-2009-8868 (perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
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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