Rapid7 Vulnerability & Exploit Database

ELSA-2011-1797 Moderate: Oracle Linux perl security update

Free InsightVM Trial No credit card necessary
Watch Demo See how it all works
Back to Search

ELSA-2011-1797 Moderate: Oracle Linux perl security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
12/06/2010
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/20/2011
Modified
04/11/2019

Description

CRLF injection vulnerability in the header function in (1) CGI.pm before 3.50 and (2) Simple.pm in CGI::Simple 1.112 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via vectors related to non-whitespace characters preceded by newline characters, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2761 and CVE-2010-3172.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-perl
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-perl-suidperl

With Rapid7 live dashboards, I have a clear view of all the assets on my network, which ones can be exploited, and what I need to do in order to reduce the risk in my environment in real-time. No other tool gives us that kind of value and insight.

– Scott Cheney, Manager of Information Security, Sierra View Medical Center

;