Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1556-2 perl -- heap buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 24 Apr 2008
- Affected Packages:
- perl
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 454792.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-1927. - More information:
-
It has been discovered that the Perl interpreter may encounter a buffer overflow condition when compiling certain regular expressions containing Unicode characters. This also happens if the offending characters are contained in a variable reference protected by the \Q...\E quoting construct. When encountering this condition, the Perl interpreter typically crashes, but arbitrary code execution cannot be ruled out.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 5.8.8-7etch3.
The unstable distribution (sid) will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your perl packages.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.8-7etch3.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.8-7etch3.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_5.8.8-7etch3.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-modules_5.8.8-7etch3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-doc_5.8.8-7etch3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libcgi-fast-perl_5.8.8-7etch3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-doc_5.8.8-7etch3_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.8-7etch3_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch3_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.8-7etch3_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.8-7etch3_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.8-7etch3_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.8-7etch3_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch3_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.8-7etch3_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.8-7etch3_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.8-7etch3_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.8-7etch3_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.8-7etch3_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch3_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.8-7etch3_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.8-7etch3_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.8-7etch3_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.8-7etch3_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.8-7etch3_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch3_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.8-7etch3_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.8-7etch3_arm.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.8-7etch3_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.8-7etch3_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.8-7etch3_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch3_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.8-7etch3_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.8-7etch3_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.8-7etch3_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.8-7etch3_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch3_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.8-7etch3_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.8-7etch3_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.8-7etch3_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.8-7etch3_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch3_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.8-7etch3_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.8-7etch3_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.8-7etch3_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.8-7etch3_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.8-7etch3_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch3_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.8-7etch3_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.8-7etch3_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.8-7etch3_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch3_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.8-7etch3_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.8-7etch3_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.8-7etch3_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.8-7etch3_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.8-7etch3_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.8-7etch3_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.8-7etch3_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.8-7etch3_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.8-7etch3_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch3_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.8-7etch3_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.8-7etch3_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.8-7etch3_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.8-7etch3_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.8-7etch3_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch3_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.8-7etch3_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.8-7etch3_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch3_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.8-7etch3_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.8-7etch3_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.8-7etch3_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.8-7etch3_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.8-7etch3_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.8-7etch3_s390.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.