Fedora 28 Update: Perl Security Fixes for Multiple Buffer Overflows

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Security fix for CVE-2018-18311, CVE-2018-18312, CVE-2018-18313 and

CVE-2018-18314

* Fri Nov 30 2018 Jitka Plesnikova - 4:5.26.3-415

- 5.26.3 bump

* Thu Oct 25 2018 Jitka Plesnikova - 4:5.26.2-414

- Fix annocheck failure by passing CFLAGS to dtrace

* Mon Jul 9 2018 Petr Pisar - 4:5.26.2-413

- Adjust tests to gdbm-1.15 (RT#133295)

- Fix an integer wrap when allocating memory for an environment variable

(RT#133204)

- Fix printing a warning about a wide character when matching a regular

expression while ISO-8859-1 locale is in effect

- Fix invoking a check for wide characters while ISO-8859-1 locale is in effect

* Fri May 25 2018 Petr Pisar - 4:5.26.2-412

- perl-devel requires redhat-rpm-config because of hardened compiler profiles

(bug #1557667)

- Do not clobber file bytes in :encoding layer (RT#132833)

- Fix line numbers in multi-line s/// (RT#131930)

- Fix parsing extended bracketed character classes (RT#132167)

- Fix a possibly unitialized memory read in the Perl parser (RT#133074)

- Fix an infinite loop in the regular expression compiler (RT#133185)

* Fri May 18 2018 Jitka Plesnikova - 4:5.26.2-411

- Correct license tags of perl-libs (bug #1579524)

* Mon Apr 16 2018 Petr Pisar - 4:5.26.2-410

- 5.26.2 bump

- Fix CVE-2018-6913 (heap buffer overflow in pp_pack.c) (bug #1567776)

- Fix CVE-2018-6798 (heap read overflow in regexec.c) (bug #1567777)

- Fix CVE-2018-6797 (heap write overflow in regcomp.c) (bug #1567778)

[ 1 ] Bug #1646751 - CVE-2018-18314 perl: Heap-based buffer overflow

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1646751

[ 2 ] Bug #1646738 - CVE-2018-18313 perl: Heap-buffer-overflow read in regcomp.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1646738

[ 3 ] Bug #1646730 - CVE-2018-18311 perl: Integer overflow leading to buffer overflow

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1646730

[ 4 ] Bug #1646734 - CVE-2018-18312 perl: Heap-buffer-overflow write / reg_node overrun

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1646734

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