USN-1543-1: Config-IniFiles vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 12.04
• Ubuntu 11.10
• Ubuntu 11.04
• Ubuntu 10.04

Packages

• libconfig-inifiles-perl - Perl module for working with INI configuration files

Details

It was discovered that the perl Config::IniFiles module created temporary
files in an unsafe manner. A local user with write access to the directory
containing a configuration file that Config-IniFiles manipulates could
exploit this to overwrite arbitrary files.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.04

• libconfig-inifiles-perl - 2.68-1ubuntu0.12.04.1

Ubuntu 11.10

• libconfig-inifiles-perl - 2.68-1ubuntu0.11.10.1

Ubuntu 11.04

• libconfig-inifiles-perl - 2.58-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 10.04

• libconfig-inifiles-perl - 2.52-1ubuntu0.1

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

References

• CVE-2012-2451