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openSUSE: 2018:2010-1 Important: Perl Remote Attack Fix

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Calendar Grey July 20, 2018
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A crucial security patch for Fedora addresses potential vulnerabilities in Python and enhances overall system performance.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available.

Description

This update for perl fixes the following issues:

This security issue was fixed:

- CVE-2018-12015: The Archive::Tar module allowed remote attackers to

bypass a directory-traversal protection mechanism and overwrite

arbitrary files (bsc#1096718)

This non-security issue was fixed:

- fix debugger crash in tab completion with Term::ReadLine::Gnu

[bsc#1068565]

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.

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Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-750=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

perl-5.18.2-15.2

perl-base-5.18.2-15.2

perl-base-debuginfo-5.18.2-15.2

perl-debuginfo-5.18.2-15.2

perl-debugsource-5.18.2-15.2

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):

perl-32bit-5.18.2-15.2

perl-base-32bit-5.18.2-15.2

perl-base-debuginfo-32bit-5.18.2-15.2

perl-debuginfo-32bit-5.18.2-15.2

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (noarch):

perl-doc-5.18.2-15.2

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12015.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1068565

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1096718

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:2010-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 le.

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