Summary
The remote host is missing an update to perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2 announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-8868.
Solution
Apply the appropriate updates.
This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use su -c 'yum update perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2' at the command line.
For more information, refer to Managing Software with yum, available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2009-8868
Insight
Update Information:
Off-by-one error in the bzinflate function in Bzip2.xs in the Compress-Raw-Bzip2 module before 2.018 for Perl allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application hang or crash) via a crafted bzip2 compressed stream that triggers a buffer overflow, a related issue to CVE-2009-1391.
ChangeLog:
* Thu Aug 20 2009 Marcela Maláová - 2.020-1
- 518278 CVE-2009-1884, update to the latest release
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-1391, CVE-2009-1884 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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