klieber
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 Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2002 2:58 pm Post subject: [gentoo-announce] GLSA: perl |
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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200212-6
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PACKAGE : perl
SUMMARY : broken safe compartment
DATE : 2002-12-20 14:12 UTC
EXPLOIT : local
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Quote from http://use.perl.org/articles/02/10/06/1118222.shtml?tid=5
"A security hole has been discovered in Safe.pm. When a Safe compartment has already been used, there's no guarantee that it's safe any longer, because there's a way for code executed within the Safe compartment to alter its operation mask. (Thus, programs that use a Safe compartment only once aren't affected by this bug"
More information is available at
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=rt-17744-39131.3.96370682846239%40bugs6.perl.org
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running sys-devel/perl-5.6.1-r9 or sys-devel/5.8.0-r5 and earlier update their systems as follows:
emerge rsync
emerge perl
emerge clean
ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION
If you don't want to or can't upgrade your perl package right away, you can emerge dev-perl/Safe to accomplish the same solution as above.
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