National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-3597
Original release date:01/13/2012
Last revised:12/19/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Eval injection vulnerability in the Digest module before 1.17 for Perl allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary commands via the new constructor.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743010
Type: Patch Information
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-1643-1
External Source: BID
Name: 49911
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2011:1797
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2011:1424
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2012:009
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2012:008
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 51457
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 46279
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/GAAS/Digest-1.17/Changes
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/perl_advisory2.asc
