Perl Unicode regular expressions buffer overflow
| perl-unicode-bo (38270) |  High Risk |
Description:
The Perl regular expression engine is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper handling of Unicode encoded data. By passing specially-crafted Unicode data to a regular expression using unspecified attack vectors, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system with the privileges of the Perl application.
Platforms Affected:
- Apple, Mac OS X 10.4.11
- Apple, Mac OS X 10.5.1
- Apple, Mac OS X Server 10.4.11
- Apple, Mac OS X Server 10.5.1
- Canonical, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
- Canonical, Ubuntu 6.10
- Canonical, Ubuntu 7.04
- Canonical, Ubuntu 7.10
- Debian, Debian Linux 3.1
- Debian, Debian Linux 4.0
- Gentoo, Linux
- IBM, AIX 5.2
- IBM, AIX 5.3
- IBM, AIX 6.1
- IPCop, IPCop 1.4.20
- Larry Wall, Perl 5.8.8 and prior
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux 2007 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux 2007
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux 2007.1
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux 2007.1 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux 2008.0
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux 2008.0 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 3.0 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 3.0
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 4.0
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 4.0 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Multi Network Firewall 2.0
- OpenPKG, OpenPKG CURRENT
- RedHat, Application Stack v1 for EL AS 4
- RedHat, Application Stack v1 for EL ES 4
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 3 Desktop
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 3 AS
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 3 WS
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 3 ES
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 4 AS
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 4 ES
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 4 WS
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 4 Desktop
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 5 Client
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 5
- Sun, Solaris 10 x86
- Sun, Solaris 10 SPARC
- SuSE, SuSE Linux
- VMware, ESX Server 3.0.1
- VMware, ESX Server 3.0.2
Remedy:
Upgrade to the latest Development Release of Perl (5.9.5 or later), available from the Perl Web site. See References.
Refer to VMSA-2008-0001 for patch, upgrade, or suggested workaround information, available from the VMware Security-announce Mailing List, Mon Jan 7 17:46:23 PST 2008. See References.
For other distributions:
Apply the appropriate update for your system. See References.
Consequences:
Gain Access
References:
- Apple Web site, About Security Update 2007-009 at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179.
- Apple Web site, About Security Update 2007-009 v1.1 at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307224.
- BugTraq Mailing List, Mon Dec 17 2007 - 15:47:29 CST, Apple OS X Software Update Remote Command Execution at http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2007-12/0217.html.
- HP IT resource center Web site, patch details: T64KIT1001399-V51BB26-ES-20071207 patch details: T64KIT1001399-V51BB26-ES-20071207 at http://www11.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/patchDetail.do?patchid=T64KIT1001399-V51BB26-ES-20071207&admit=109447626+1203607867941+28353475.
- HP IT resource center Web site, patch details: PERL_V51BB27-ES-20080207 at http://www12.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/patchDetail.do;HP-ESC-S-WPA-IDX=H9YX0zrRQ41J2QhLn39Z4HK1SdQbXLjRs4Q4Hq1rJCynGJyqPB0g!-1997021009!-1445928563?patchid=perl_V51BB27-ES-20080207&admit=109447627+1203607768204+28353475.
- HPSBTU02311 SSRT080001 rev.1 HPSBTU02311 SSRT080001 rev.1, HP Tru64 UNIX running Perl, Remote Execution of Arbitrary Code at http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01362465.
- IBM - Subscription service - Bulletin, AIX Perl buffer overflow vulnerability at http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/subscriptions/ijhifoeblist?mode=7&heading=AIX53&path=%2F200712%2FSECURITY%2F20071218%2Fdatafile114034&label=AIX+Perl+buffer+overflow+vulnerability.
- IBM AIX FTP site, perl_ifix.tar efix at ftp://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/perl_ifix.tar.
- IPCop Web site, IPCop 1.4.21 released at http://www.ipcop.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=41.
- NORTEL BULLETIN ID: 2008009063, Rev 1, Nortel Response to Sun Alert 231524 - Security Vulnerability in Solaris 10 Perl 5.8 at http://support.nortel.com/go/main.jsp?cscat=BLTNDETAIL&id=767139.
- Red Hat Bugzilla Bug 323571, CVE-2007-5116 perl regular expression UTF parsing errors at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=323571.
- Security-announce Mailing List, Mon Jan 7 17:46:23 PST 2008 , VMSA-2008-0001 Moderate OpenPegasus PAM Authentication Buffer Overflow and updated service console packages at http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000002.html.
- Sun Alert ID: 231524, Security Vulnerability in Solaris 10 Perl 5.8 at http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-231524-1.
- The Perl Foundation Web site, The Perl Directory - perl.org at http://www.perl.org/.
- VMware Security-Announce Mailing List, Tue Jan 22 16:42:45 PST 2008, UPDATED VMSA-2008-0001.1 Moderate OpenPegasus PAM Authentication Buffer Overflow and updated service console packages at http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000004.html.
- ASA-2007-477: Perl security update (RHSA-2007-1011)
- ASA-2008-014: Perl security update (RHSA-2007-0966)
- ASA-2008-359: Security Vulnerability in Solaris 10 Perl 5.8 (Sun 231524)
- BID-26350: Perl Unicode Regular Expression Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
- CVE-2007-5116: Buffer overflow in the polymorphic opcode support in the Regular Expression Engine (regcomp.c) in Perl 5.8 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code by switching from byte to Unicode (UTF) characters in a regular expression.
- DSA-1400: perl -- heap overflow
- GLSA-200711-28: Perl: Buffer overflow
- MDKSA-2007:207: Updated perl packages fix vulnerability
- OpenPKG-SA-2007.023: perl
- RHSA-2007-0966: Important: perl security update
- RHSA-2007-1011: Important: perl security update
- SA27546: Perl Regular Expressions Unicode Data Buffer Overflow
- SA28167: IBM AIX Perl Regular Expressions Unicode Data Buffer Overflow
- SA28368: VMware ESX Server Multiple Security Updates
- SA28387: Avaya Products Perl Regular Expressions Unicode Data Buffer Overflow
- SA28993: HP Tru64 UNIX Perl Regular Expressions Vulnerability
- SA29074: Solaris 10 Perl Regular Expressions Unicode Data Buffer Overflow
- SA31208: IPCop update for perl
- SECTRACK ID: 1018899: Perl Regex Processing Bug May Let Users Execute Arbitrary Code
- SUSE-SR:2007:024: SUSE Security Summary Report
- USN-552-1: Perl vulnerability
- VUPEN/ADV-2007-3724: Perl Regular Expression Engine UTF Parsing Code Execution Vulnerability
- VUPEN/ADV-2007-4238: Apple Mac OS X Code Execution and Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities
- VUPEN/ADV-2007-4255: IBM AIX Security Update Fixes Perl Expression Engine Buffer Overflow
- VUPEN/ADV-2008-0064: VMware ESX Server Code Execution and Security Bypass Vulnerabilities
- VUPEN/ADV-2008-0641: Sun Solaris Perl Regular Expression Engine Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Reported:
Nov 05, 2007
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