Fedora 28: perl Security Update
Summary
Perl is a high-level programming language with roots in C, sed, awk and shell
scripting. Perl is good at handling processes and files, and is especially
good at handling text. Perl's hallmarks are practicality and efficiency.
While it is used to do a lot of different things, Perl's most common
applications are system administration utilities and web programming.
This is a metapackage with all the Perl bits and core modules that can be
found in the upstream tarball from perl.org.
If you need only a specific feature, you can install a specific package
instead. E.g. to handle Perl scripts with /usr/bin/perl interpreter,
install perl-interpreter package. See perl-interpreter description for more
details on the Perl decomposition into packages.
This release provides Perl 5.26.2 that fixes a heap buffer overflow in the
pack() function and two overflows in regular expression engine.
* Mon Apr 16 2018 Petr Pisar
- 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 #1547783 - CVE-2018-6797 perl: heap write overflow in regcomp.c
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1547783
[ 2 ] Bug #1547779 - CVE-2018-6798 perl: heap read overflow in regexec.c
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1547779
[ 3 ] Bug #1547772 - CVE-2018-6913 perl: heap buffer overflow in pp_pack.c
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1547772
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-d1ba58394e' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html
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FEDORA-2018-d1ba58394e 2018-05-09 21:21:50.031552 Product : Fedora 28 Version : 5.26.2 Release : 410.fc28 URL : https://www.perl.org/ Summary : Practical Extraction and Report Language Description : Perl is a high-level programming language with roots in C, sed, awk and shell scripting. Perl is good at handling processes and files, and is especially good at handling text. Perl's hallmarks are practicality and efficiency. While it is used to do a lot of different things, Perl's most common applications are system administration utilities and web programming. This is a metapackage with all the Perl bits and core modules that can be found in the upstream tarball from perl.org. If you need only a specific feature, you can install a specific package instead. E.g. to handle Perl scripts with /usr/bin/perl interpreter, install perl-interpreter package. See perl-interpreter description for more details on the Perl decomposition into packages. This release provides Perl 5.26.2 that fixes a heap buffer overflow in the pack() function and two overflows in regular expression engine. * 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 #1547783 - CVE-2018-6797 perl: heap write overflow in regcomp.c https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1547783 [ 2 ] Bug #1547779 - CVE-2018-6798 perl: heap read overflow in regexec.c https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1547779 [ 3 ] Bug #1547772 - CVE-2018-6913 perl: heap buffer overflow in pp_pack.c https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1547772 su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-d1ba58394e' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/security/ package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to package-announce-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org
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