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openSUSE Leap 15.1: openSUSE-SU-2020:0850-1 Critical Perl Memory Issue

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Calendar Grey June 22, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Important openSUSE upgrade for perl resolves numerous critical vulnerabilities. Ensure your system's safety with the most recent patches.
An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

Description

This update for perl fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2020-10543: Fixed a heap buffer overflow in regular expression

compiler which could have allowed overwriting of allocated memory with

attacker's data (bsc#1171863).

- CVE-2020-10878: Fixed multiple integer overflows which could have

allowed the insertion of instructions into the compiled form of Perl

regular expression (bsc#1171864).

- CVE-2020-12723: Fixed an attacker's corruption of the intermediate

language state of a compiled regular expression (bsc#1171866).

- Fixed a bad warning in features.ph (bsc#1172348).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

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 15.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-850=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (i586 x86_64):

perl-5.26.1-lp151.9.6.1

perl-base-5.26.1-lp151.9.6.1

perl-base-debuginfo-5.26.1-lp151.9.6.1

perl-debuginfo-5.26.1-lp151.9.6.1

perl-debugsource-5.26.1-lp151.9.6.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (x86_64):

perl-32bit-5.26.1-lp151.9.6.1

perl-32bit-debuginfo-5.26.1-lp151.9.6.1

perl-base-32bit-5.26.1-lp151.9.6.1

perl-base-32bit-debuginfo-5.26.1-lp151.9.6.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (noarch):

perl-doc-5.26.1-lp151.9.6.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10543.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10878.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12723.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1171863

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1171864

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1171866

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1172348

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:0850-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1 le.

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