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Red Hat: RHSA-2019-0001-1 Important: Perl Security Enhancements

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Calendar Grey January 2, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Significant upgrade for rh-python36-python concerning crucial security patches within Red Hat Software Collections. Maintain your safety!
An update for rh-perl526-perl and rh-perl526-perl-Module-CoreList 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.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rh-perl526-perl (5.26.3), rh-perl526-perl-Module-CoreList (5.20181130). (BZ#1658969)
Security Fix(es):
* perl: Integer overflow leading to buffer overflow in Perl_my_setenv() (CVE-2018-18311)
* perl: Heap-based buffer overflow in S_handle_regex_sets() (CVE-2018-18312)
* perl: Heap-based buffer overflow in S_regatom() (CVE-2018-18314)
* perl: Heap-based buffer read overflow in S_grok_bslash_N() (CVE-2018-18313)
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 the Perl project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Jayakrishna Menon as the original reporter of CVE-2018-18311; Eiichi Tsukata as the original reporter of CVE-2018-18312 and CVE-2018-18313; and Jakub Wilk as the original reporter of CVE-2018-18314.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat buffer overflow software update heap overflow Perl Important

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-18311 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-18312 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-18313 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-18314 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: rh-perl526-perl-5.26.3-405.el7.src.rpm rh-perl526-perl-Module-CoreList-5.20181130-1.el7.src.rpm
aarch64: rh-perl526-perl-debuginfo-5.26.3-405.el7.aarch64.rpm
noarch: rh-perl526-perl-ExtUtils-Miniperl-1.06-405.el7.noarch.rpm rh-perl526-perl-Module-CoreList-tools-5.20181130-1.el7.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: rh-perl526-perl-debuginfo-5.26.3-405.el7.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: rh-perl526-perl-debuginfo-5.26.3-405.el7.s390x.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: rh-perl526-perl-5.26.3-405.el7.src.rpm rh-perl526-perl-Module-CoreList-5.20181130-1.el7.src.rpm
aarch64: rh-perl526-perl-debuginfo-5.26.3-405.el7.aarch64.rpm
noarch: rh-perl526-perl-ExtUtils-Miniperl-1.06-405.el7.noarch.rpm rh-perl526-perl-Module-CoreList-tools-5.20181130-1.el7.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: rh-perl526-perl-debuginfo-5.26.3-405.el7.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: rh-perl526-perl-debuginfo-5.26.3-405.el7.s390x.rpm
x86_64: rh-perl526-perl-debuginfo-5.26.3-405.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.4):
Source: rh-perl526-perl-5.26.3-405.el7.src.rpm rh-perl526-perl-Module-CoreList-5.20181130-1.el7.src.rpm
noarch: rh-perl526-perl-ExtUtils-Miniperl-1.06-405.el7.noarch.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:0001-01
Product: Red Hat Software Collections
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0001
Issue date: 2019-01-02

Topic

An update for rh-perl526-perl and rh-perl526-perl-Module-CoreList is nowavailable for Red Hat Software Collections.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat buffer overflow software update heap overflow Perl Important

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.4) - noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.5) - noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.6) - noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

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

Bugs Fixed

1646730 - CVE-2018-18311 perl: Integer overflow leading to buffer overflow in Perl_my_setenv()

1646734 - CVE-2018-18312 perl: Heap-based buffer overflow in S_handle_regex_sets()

1646738 - CVE-2018-18313 perl: Heap-based buffer read overflow in S_grok_bslash_N()

1646751 - CVE-2018-18314 perl: Heap-based buffer overflow in S_regatom()

1658969 - Rebase to latest 5.26 security fix release [3.2.z]

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