Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 20:51:50 +0100
From: (Trustix Secure Linux Advisor) <tsl@trustix.com>
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Subject: TSLSA-2002-0087 - perl
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Trustix Secure Linux Security Advisory #2002-0087
Package name: perl
Summary: Safe compartments not being safe
Date: 2002-12-19
Affected versions: TSL 1.01, 1.1, 1.2, 1.5
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Package description:
Perl is a high-level programming language with roots in C, sed, awk
and shell scripting. Perl is good at handling processes and files,
and is especially good at handling text. Perl's hallmarks are
practicality and efficiency. While it is used to do a lot of
different things, Perl's most common applications (and what it excels
at) are probably system administration utilities and web programming.
A large proportion of the CGI scripts on the web are written in Perl.
Problem description:
Perl allows for socalled "safe compartmemts" where code can be
evalutated without access to variables outside this environment.
There was, however, a bug with regards to applications using this
safe compartment more than once.
Action:
We recommend that all systems with this package installed be upgraded.
Please note that if you do not need the functionality provided by this
package, you may want to remove it from your system.
Location:
All TSL updates are available from
<URI:http://www.trustix.net/pub/Trustix/updates/>;
<URI:ftp://ftp.trustix.net/pub/Trustix/updates/>;
About Trustix Secure Linux:
Trustix Secure Linux is a small Linux distribution for servers. With focus
on security and stability, the system is painlessly kept safe and up to
date from day one using swup, the automated software updater.
Automatic updates:
Users of the SWUP tool can enjoy having updates automatically
installed using 'swup --upgrade'.
Get SWUP from:
<URI:ftp://ftp.trustix.net/pub/Trustix/software/swup/>;
Public testing:
These packages have been available for public testing for some time.
If you want to contribute by testing the various packages in the
testing tree, please feel free to share your findings on the
tsl-discuss mailinglist.
The testing tree is located at
<URI:http://www.trustix.net/pub/Trustix/testing/>;
<URI:ftp://ftp.trustix.net/pub/Trustix/testing/>;
Questions?
Check out our mailing lists:
<URI:http://www.trustix.net/support/>;
Verification:
This advisory along with all TSL packages are signed with the TSL sign key.
This key is available from:
<URI:http://www.trustix.net/TSL-GPG-KEY>;
The advisory itself is available from the errata pages at
<URI:http://www.trustix.net/errata/trustix-1.2/>; and
<URI:http://www.trustix.net/errata/trustix-1.5/>;
or directly at
<URI:http://www.trustix.net/errata/misc/2002/TSL-2002-0087-perl.asc.txt>;
MD5sums of the packages:
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5b836b3ace7257bff56256a3849bdc08 ./1.1/RPMS/perl-5.00503-14tr.i586.rpm
cd5cd40261c0a1291254d572f6331373 ./1.1/SRPMS/perl-5.00503-14tr.src.rpm
13a4239092934f5d059cfd573e448eee ./1.2/RPMS/perl-5.00503-14tr.i586.rpm
cd5cd40261c0a1291254d572f6331373 ./1.2/SRPMS/perl-5.00503-14tr.src.rpm
6e864051fab21be22c8e295dbff00df2 ./1.5/RPMS/perl-5.00503-14tr.i586.rpm
cd5cd40261c0a1291254d572f6331373 ./1.5/SRPMS/perl-5.00503-14tr.src.rpm
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Trustix Security Team
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