USN-16-1: perl vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 4.10

Details

Recently, Trustix Secure Linux discovered some vulnerabilities in the
perl package. The utility "instmodsh", the Perl package "PPPort.pm",
and several test scripts (which are not shipped and only used during
build) created temporary files in an insecure way, which could allow a
symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the
privileges of the user invoking the program, or building the perl
package, respectively.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 4.10

• perl -

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2004-0976