Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.702641
Category:	Debian Local Security Checks
Title:	Debian Security Advisory DSA 2641-2 (perl - rehashing flaw)
Summary:	Yves Orton discovered a flaw in the rehashing code of Perl. This flaw;could be exploited to carry out a denial of service attack against code;that uses arbitrary user input as hash keys. Specifically an attacker;could create a set of keys of a hash causing a denial of service via;memory exhaustion.
Description:	Summary: Yves Orton discovered a flaw in the rehashing code of Perl. This flaw could be exploited to carry out a denial of service attack against code that uses arbitrary user input as hash keys. Specifically an attacker could create a set of keys of a hash causing a denial of service via memory exhaustion. Affected Software/OS: perl on Debian Linux Solution: For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 5.10.1-17squeeze6 of perl and version 2.0.4-7+squeeze1 of libapache2-mod-perl2. For the testing distribution (wheezy), and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 5.14.2-19 of perl and version 2.0.7-3 of libapache2-mod-perl2. We recommend that you upgrade your perl and libapache2-mod-perl2 packages. CVSS Score: 7.5 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2013-1667 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Oct/msg00004.html BugTraq ID: 58311 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58311 Debian Security Information: DSA-2641 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2641 HPdes Security Advisory: HPSBUX02928 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=137891988921058&w=2 HPdes Security Advisory: SSRT101274 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:113 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=702296 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=912276 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg199755.html http://osvdb.org/90892 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18771 RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2013:0685 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0685.html http://secunia.com/advisories/52472 http://secunia.com/advisories/52499 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1770-1 XForce ISS Database: perl-rehash-dos(82598) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/82598
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