Debian Security Advisory
DSA-208-1 perl -- broken safe compartment
- Date Reported:
- 12 Dec 2002
- Affected Packages:
-
perl
perl-5.004
perl-5.005 - Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 6111.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2002-1323. - More information:
-
A security hole has been discovered in Safe.pm which is used in all versions of Perl. The Safe extension module allows the creation of compartments in which perl code can be evaluated in a new namespace and the code evaluated in the compartment cannot refer to variables outside this namespace. However, when a Safe compartment has already been used, there's no guarantee that it is Safe any longer, because there's a way for code to be executed within the Safe compartment to alter its operation mask. Thus, programs that use a Safe compartment only once aren't affected by this bug.
This problem has been fixed in version 5.6.1-8.2 for the current stable distribution (woody), in version 5.004.05-6.2 and 5.005.03-7.2 for the old stable distribution (potato) and in version 5.8.0-14 for the unstable distribution (sid).
We recommend that you upgrade your Perl packages.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.004/perl-5.004_5.004.05-6.2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.004/perl-5.004_5.004.05-6.2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.004/perl-5.004_5.004.05.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.005/perl-5.005_5.005.03-7.2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.005/perl-5.005_5.005.03-7.2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.005/perl-5.005_5.005.03.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.004/perl-5.004_5.004.05-6.2.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.004/perl-5.004-doc_5.004.05-6.2_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.005/perl-5.005-doc_5.005.03-7.2_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.005/perl-5.005-doc_5.005.03-7.2_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.004/perl-5.004_5.004.05-6.2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.004/perl-5.004-base_5.004.05-6.2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.004/perl-5.004-debug_5.004.05-6.2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.004/perl-5.004-suid_5.004.05-6.2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.005/perl-5.005_5.005.03-7.2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.005/perl-5.005-base_5.005.03-7.2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.005/perl-5.005-debug_5.005.03-7.2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.005/perl-5.005-suid_5.005.03-7.2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.005/perl-5.005-thread_5.005.03-7.2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.004/perl-5.004-base_5.004.05-6.2_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.004/perl-5.004_5.004.05-6.2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.004/perl-5.004-base_5.004.05-6.2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.004/perl-5.004-debug_5.004.05-6.2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.004/perl-5.004-suid_5.004.05-6.2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.005/perl-5.005_5.005.03-7.2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.005/perl-5.005-base_5.005.03-7.2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.005/perl-5.005-debug_5.005.03-7.2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.005/perl-5.005-suid_5.005.03-7.2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.005/perl-5.005-thread_5.005.03-7.2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.004/perl-5.004-base_5.004.05-6.2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.004/perl-5.004_5.004.05-6.2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.004/perl-5.004-base_5.004.05-6.2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.004/perl-5.004-debug_5.004.05-6.2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.004/perl-5.004-suid_5.004.05-6.2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.005/perl-5.005_5.005.03-7.2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.005/perl-5.005-base_5.005.03-7.2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.005/perl-5.005-debug_5.005.03-7.2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.005/perl-5.005-suid_5.005.03-7.2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.005/perl-5.005-thread_5.005.03-7.2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.004/perl-5.004-base_5.004.05-6.2_i386.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.004/perl-5.004_5.004.05-6.2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.004/perl-5.004-base_5.004.05-6.2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.004/perl-5.004-debug_5.004.05-6.2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.004/perl-5.004-suid_5.004.05-6.2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.005/perl-5.005_5.005.03-7.2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.005/perl-5.005-base_5.005.03-7.2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.005/perl-5.005-debug_5.005.03-7.2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.005/perl-5.005-suid_5.005.03-7.2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.005/perl-5.005-thread_5.005.03-7.2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.004/perl-5.004-base_5.004.05-6.2_m68k.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.004/perl-5.004_5.004.05-6.2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.004/perl-5.004-base_5.004.05-6.2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.004/perl-5.004-debug_5.004.05-6.2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.004/perl-5.004-suid_5.004.05-6.2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.005/perl-5.005_5.005.03-7.2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.005/perl-5.005-base_5.005.03-7.2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.005/perl-5.005-debug_5.005.03-7.2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.005/perl-5.005-suid_5.005.03-7.2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.005/perl-5.005-thread_5.005.03-7.2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.004/perl-5.004-base_5.004.05-6.2_powerpc.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.004/perl-5.004_5.004.05-6.2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.004/perl-5.004-base_5.004.05-6.2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.004/perl-5.004-debug_5.004.05-6.2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.004/perl-5.004-suid_5.004.05-6.2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.005/perl-5.005_5.005.03-7.2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.005/perl-5.005-base_5.005.03-7.2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.005/perl-5.005-debug_5.005.03-7.2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.005/perl-5.005-suid_5.005.03-7.2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.005/perl-5.005-thread_5.005.03-7.2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl-5.004/perl-5.004-base_5.004.05-6.2_sparc.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.6.1-8.2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.6.1-8.2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.6.1.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.6.1-8.2.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libcgi-fast-perl_5.6.1-8.2_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-doc_5.6.1-8.2_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-modules_5.6.1-8.2_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-doc_5.6.1-8.2_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.6.1-8.2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.6_5.6.1-8.2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.6.1-8.2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.6.1-8.2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.6.1-8.2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.6.1-8.2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.6_5.6.1-8.2_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.6.1-8.2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.6_5.6.1-8.2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.6.1-8.2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.6.1-8.2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.6.1-8.2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.6.1-8.2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.6_5.6.1-8.2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.6.1-8.2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.6_5.6.1-8.2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.6.1-8.2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.6.1-8.2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.6.1-8.2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.6.1-8.2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.6_5.6.1-8.2_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.6.1-8.2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.6_5.6.1-8.2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.6.1-8.2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.6.1-8.2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.6.1-8.2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.6.1-8.2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.6_5.6.1-8.2_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.6.1-8.2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.6_5.6.1-8.2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.6.1-8.2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.6.1-8.2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.6.1-8.2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.6.1-8.2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.6_5.6.1-8.2_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.6.1-8.2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.6_5.6.1-8.2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.6.1-8.2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.6.1-8.2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.6.1-8.2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.6.1-8.2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.6_5.6.1-8.2_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.6.1-8.2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.6_5.6.1-8.2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.6.1-8.2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.6.1-8.2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.6.1-8.2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.6.1-8.2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.6_5.6.1-8.2_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.6.1-8.2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.6_5.6.1-8.2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.6.1-8.2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.6.1-8.2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.6.1-8.2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.6.1-8.2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.6_5.6.1-8.2_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.6.1-8.2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.6_5.6.1-8.2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.6.1-8.2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.6.1-8.2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.6.1-8.2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.6.1-8.2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.6_5.6.1-8.2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.6.1-8.2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.6_5.6.1-8.2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.6.1-8.2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.6.1-8.2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.6.1-8.2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.6.1-8.2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.6_5.6.1-8.2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.6.1-8.2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.6_5.6.1-8.2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.6.1-8.2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.6.1-8.2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.6.1-8.2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.6.1-8.2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.6_5.6.1-8.2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.