Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1400-1 perl -- heap overflow
- Date Reported:
- 06 Nov 2007
- Affected Packages:
- perl
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-5116.
- More information:
-
Will Drewry and Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team have discovered a UTF-8 related heap overflow in Perl's regular expression compiler, probably allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code by compiling specially crafted regular expressions.
For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 5.8.4-8sarge6.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 5.8.8-7etch1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.
Some architectures are missing from this DSA; these updates will be released once they are available.
We recommend that you upgrade your perl package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.4-8sarge6.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.4-8sarge6.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.4.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.4-8sarge6.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libcgi-fast-perl_5.8.4-8sarge6_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-doc_5.8.4-8sarge6_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-modules_5.8.4-8sarge6_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-doc_5.8.4-8sarge6_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.4-8sarge6_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.4-8sarge6_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.4-8sarge6_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.4-8sarge6_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.4-8sarge6_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.4-8sarge6_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.4-8sarge6_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.4-8sarge6_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.4-8sarge6_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.4-8sarge6_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.4-8sarge6_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.4-8sarge6_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.4-8sarge6_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.4-8sarge6_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.4-8sarge3_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.4-8sarge3_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.4-8sarge3_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.4-8sarge3_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.4-8sarge3_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.4-8sarge3_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.4-8sarge3_arm.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.4-8sarge6_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.4-8sarge6_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.4-8sarge6_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.4-8sarge6_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.4-8sarge6_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.4-8sarge6_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.4-8sarge6_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.4-8sarge6_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.4-8sarge6_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.4-8sarge6_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.4-8sarge6_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.4-8sarge6_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.4-8sarge6_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.4-8sarge6_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.4-8sarge6_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.4-8sarge6_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.4-8sarge6_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.4-8sarge6_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.4-8sarge6_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.4-8sarge6_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.4-8sarge6_ia64.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.4-8sarge3_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.4-8sarge3_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.4-8sarge3_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.4-8sarge3_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.4-8sarge3_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.4-8sarge3_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.4-8sarge3_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.4-8sarge3_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.4-8sarge3_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.4-8sarge3_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.4-8sarge3_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.4-8sarge3_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.4-8sarge3_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.4-8sarge3_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.4-8sarge6_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.4-8sarge6_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.4-8sarge6_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.4-8sarge6_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.4-8sarge6_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.4-8sarge6_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.4-8sarge6_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.4-8sarge6_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.4-8sarge6_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.4-8sarge6_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.4-8sarge6_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.4-8sarge6_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.4-8sarge6_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.4-8sarge6_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.4-8sarge6_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.4-8sarge6_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.4-8sarge6_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.4-8sarge6_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.4-8sarge6_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.4-8sarge6_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.4-8sarge6_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.4-8sarge6_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.4-8sarge6_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.4-8sarge6_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.4-8sarge6_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.4-8sarge6_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.4-8sarge6_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.4-8sarge6_sparc.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.8-7etch1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.8-7etch1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.8.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.8-7etch1.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libcgi-fast-perl_5.8.8-7etch1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-doc_5.8.8-7etch1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-modules_5.8.8-7etch1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-doc_5.8.8-7etch1_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.8-7etch1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.8-7etch1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.8-7etch1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.8-7etch1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.8-7etch1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.8-7etch1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.8-7etch1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.8-7etch1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.8-7etch1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.8-7etch1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.8-7etch1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.8-7etch1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.8-7etch1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.8-7etch1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.8-7etch1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch1_arm.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.8-7etch1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.8-7etch1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.8-7etch1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.8-7etch1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.8-7etch1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.8-7etch1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.8-7etch1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.8-7etch1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.8-7etch1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.8-7etch1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.8-7etch1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.8-7etch1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.8-7etch1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.8-7etch1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.8-7etch1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch1_ia64.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.8-7etch1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.8-7etch1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.8-7etch1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.8-7etch1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.8-7etch1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.8-7etch1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.8-7etch1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.8-7etch1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.8-7etch1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.8-7etch1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch1_powerpc.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.8-7etch1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.8-7etch1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.8-7etch1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.8-7etch1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.8-7etch1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.