Upstream information

CVE-2009-1391 at MITRE

Description

Off-by-one error in the inflate function in Zlib.xs in Compress::Raw::Zlib Perl module before 2.017, as used in AMaViS, SpamAssassin, and possibly other products, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (hang or crash) via a crafted zlib compressed stream that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, as exploited in the wild by Trojan.Downloader-71014 in June 2009.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 6.8
Vector AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial
SUSE Bugzilla entries: 511241 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 513082 [CLOSED / INVALID]

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11
  • perl >= 5.10.0-64.43.1
  • perl-32bit >= 5.10.0-64.43.1
  • perl-base >= 5.10.0-64.43.1
  • perl-doc >= 5.10.0-64.43.1
  • perl-x86 >= 5.10.0-64.43.1
 Patchnames:
slessp0-perl

Status of this issue by product and package

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Product(s) Source package State
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 perl Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 perl Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 perl Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 perl Released

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 06:50:29 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:32:29 2023