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Secunia Advisory SA11249

UnixWare update for Perl

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SA11249

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Release Date

2004-03-31

Popularity

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Security Bypass

Where

From remote

Authentication level

Available in Customer Area

Report reliability

Available in Customer Area

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

Available in Customer Area

Approve distribution

Available in Customer Area

Operating System

Open UNIX 8.x.x

UnixWare 7.x.x

Secunia CVSS Score

Available in Customer Area

CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2002-1323 CVSS available in Customer Area

Description

SCO has issued an update for Perl. This fixes an old vulnerability in the Safe.pm module, which provides safe compartments to evaluate Perl code in.

The problem is that a safe compartment may be re-used, resulting in it not being safe anymore.

Solution
Update for UnixWare 7.1.2, UnixWare 7.1.3, and Open UNIX 8.0.0:
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2004.1/SCOSA-2004.1.txt

Deep Links
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UnixWare update for Perl

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