Debian Security Advisory
DLA-1345-1 perl -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 14 Apr 2018
- Affected Packages:
- perl
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-6913.
- More information:
-
GwanYeong Kim reported that 'pack()' could cause a heap buffer write overflow with a large item count.
For Debian 7
Wheezy
, these problems have been fixed in version 5.14.2-21+deb7u6.We recommend that you upgrade your perl packages.
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