Vulnerabilities > CVE-2003-0900 - Remote Security vulnerability in Larry Wall Perl 5.8.1
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
NONE Summary
Perl 5.8.1 on Fedora Core does not properly initialize the random number generator when forking, which makes it easier for attackers to predict random numbers.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 |
Nessus
| NASL family | Debian Local Security Checks |
| NASL id | DEBIAN_DLA-88.NASL |
| description | This update fixes multiple local and remote denial of service and remote code execute problems : CVE-2011-0188 Properly allocate memory, to prevent arbitrary code execution or application crash. Reported by Drew Yao. CVE-2011-2686 Reinitialize the random seed when forking to prevent CVE-2003-0900 like situations. CVE-2011-2705 Modify PRNG state to prevent random number sequence repeatation at forked child process which has same pid. Reported by Eric Wong. CVE-2011-4815 Fix a problem with predictable hash collisions resulting in denial of service (CPU consumption) attacks. Reported by Alexander Klink and Julian Waelde. CVE-2014-8080 Fix REXML parser to prevent memory consumption denial of service via crafted XML documents. Reported by Willis Vandevanter. CVE-2014-8090 Add REXML::Document#document to complement the fix for CVE-2014-8080. Reported by Tomas Hoger. NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. |
| last seen | 2020-03-17 |
| modified | 2015-03-26 |
| plugin id | 82233 |
| published | 2015-03-26 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/82233 |
| title | Debian DLA-88-1 : ruby1.8 security update |