Security Information / 2018 / Security Information -- DSA-4172-1 perl

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4172-1 perl -- security update

Date Reported:

14 Apr 2018

Affected Packages:

perl

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-6797, CVE-2018-6798, CVE-2018-6913.

More information:

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the implementation of the Perl programming language. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

• CVE-2018-6797

  Brian Carpenter reported that a crafted regular expression could cause a heap buffer write overflow, with control over the bytes written.

• CVE-2018-6798

  Nguyen Duc Manh reported that matching a crafted locale dependent regular expression can cause a heap-based buffer over-read and potentially information disclosure.

• CVE-2018-6913

  GwanYeong Kim reported that 'pack()' could cause a heap buffer write overflow with a large item count.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 5.20.2-3+deb8u10. The oldstable distribution (jessie) update contains only a fix for CVE-2018-6913.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 5.24.1-3+deb9u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your perl packages.

For the detailed security status of perl please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/perl