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