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Red Hat: RHSA-2018:1192-01 Moderate: rh-perl524-perl Heap Overflow

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Calendar Grey April 23, 2018
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Routine security patch for rh-perl524-perl within Red Hat Software Collections resolving memory leaks. Please adhere to provided instructions.
An update for rh-perl524-perl is now available for Red Hat Software Collections

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Perl is a high-level programming language that is commonly used for system administration utilities and web programming.
Security Fix(es):
* perl: heap write overflow in regcomp.c (CVE-2018-6797)
* perl: heap read overflow in regexec.c (CVE-2018-6798)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Red Hat would like to thank Perl 5 Porters for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Brian Carpenter as the original reporter of CVE-2018-6797; and Nguyen Duc Manh as the original reporter of CVE-2018-6798.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat moderate impact heap overflow perl update software collections redhat advisory

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6797 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6798 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6):
Source: rh-perl524-perl-5.24.0-380.el6.src.rpm
noarch: rh-perl524-perl-Attribute-Handlers-0.99-380.el6.noarch.rpm rh-perl524-perl-Devel-SelfStubber-1.05-380.el6.noarch.rpm rh-perl524-perl-ExtUtils-Embed-1.33-380.el6.noarch.rpm rh-perl524-perl-ExtUtils-Miniperl-1.05-380.el6.noarch.rpm rh-perl524-perl-IO-Zlib-1.10-380.el6.noarch.rpm rh-perl524-perl-Locale-Maketext-Simple-0.21-380.el6.noarch.rpm rh-perl524-perl-Math-BigRat-0.2608.02-380.el6.noarch.rpm rh-perl524-perl-Math-Complex-1.59-380.el6.noarch.rpm rh-perl524-perl-Memoize-1.03-380.el6.noarch.rpm rh-perl524-perl-Module-Loaded-0.08-380.el6.noarch.rpm rh-perl524-perl-Net-Ping-2.43-380.el6.noarch.rpm rh-perl524-perl-Pod-Html-1.22-380.el6.noarch.rpm rh-perl524-perl-SelfLoader-1.23-380.el6.noarch.rpm rh-perl524-perl-Test-1.28-380.el6.noarch.rpm rh-perl524-perl-bignum-0.42-380.el6.noarch.rpm rh-perl524-perl-libnetcfg-5.24.0-380.el6.noarch.rpm rh-perl524-perl-open-1.10-380.el6.noarch.rpm rh-perl524-perl-utils-5.24.0-380.el6.noarch.rpm
x86_64: rh-perl524-perl-5.24.0-380.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-perl524-perl-Devel-Peek-1.23-380.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-perl524-perl-Errno-1.25-380.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-perl524-perl-IO-1.36-380.el6.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:1192-01
Product: Red Hat Software Collections
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1192
Issue date: 2018-04-23

Topic

An update for rh-perl524-perl is now available for Red Hat SoftwareCollections.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat moderate impact heap overflow perl update software collections redhat advisory

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.3) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.4) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1547779 - CVE-2018-6798 perl: heap read overflow in regexec.c

1547783 - CVE-2018-6797 perl: heap write overflow in regcomp.c

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