CVE-2011-2939

Upstream information

CVE-2011-2939 at MITRE

Description

Off-by-one error in the decode_xs function in Unicode/Unicode.xs in the Encode module before 2.44, as used in Perl before 5.15.6, might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted Unicode string, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	5.1
Vector	AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	High
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 728662 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• openSUSE-SU-2011:1251-1, published Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:08:24 +0100 (CET)
• openSUSE-SU-2011:1278-1, published Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:08:58 +0100 (CET)

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
openSUSE 11.4	icedtea-web >= 1.1.4-0.2.1 icedtea-web-javadoc >= 1.1.4-0.2.1 java-1_6_0-openjdk >= 1.6.0.0_b22.1.10.2-4.3.1 java-1_6_0-openjdk-debuginfo >= 1.6.0.0_b22.1.10.2-4.3.1 java-1_6_0-openjdk-debugsource >= 1.6.0.0_b22.1.10.2-4.3.1 java-1_6_0-openjdk-demo >= 1.6.0.0_b22.1.10.2-4.3.1 java-1_6_0-openjdk-devel >= 1.6.0.0_b22.1.10.2-4.3.1 java-1_6_0-openjdk-devel-debuginfo >= 1.6.0.0_b22.1.10.2-4.3.1 java-1_6_0-openjdk-javadoc >= 1.6.0.0_b22.1.10.2-4.3.1 java-1_6_0-openjdk-src >= 1.6.0.0_b22.1.10.2-4.3.1 perl >= 5.12.3-11.18.1 perl-32bit >= 5.12.3-11.18.1 perl-base >= 5.12.3-11.18.1 perl-base-32bit >= 5.12.3-11.18.1 perl-base-debuginfo >= 5.12.3-11.18.1 perl-base-debuginfo-32bit >= 5.12.3-11.18.1 perl-debuginfo >= 5.12.3-11.18.1 perl-debuginfo-32bit >= 5.12.3-11.18.1 perl-debugsource >= 5.12.3-11.18.1 perl-doc >= 5.12.3-11.18.1	Patchnames: icedtea-web perl