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Red Hat: RHSA-2019-0109-01 Important: Perl Buffer Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey January 21, 2019
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An update for perl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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: Integer overflow leading to buffer overflow in Perl_my_setenv() (CVE-2018-18311)
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 this issue. Upstream acknowledges Jayakrishna Menon as the original reporter.

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow red hat important perl

References

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

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: perl-5.16.3-294.el7_6.src.rpm
noarch: perl-CPAN-1.9800-294.el7_6.noarch.rpm perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.28.2.6-294.el7_6.noarch.rpm perl-ExtUtils-Embed-1.30-294.el7_6.noarch.rpm perl-ExtUtils-Install-1.58-294.el7_6.noarch.rpm perl-IO-Zlib-1.10-294.el7_6.noarch.rpm perl-Locale-Maketext-Simple-0.21-294.el7_6.noarch.rpm perl-Module-CoreList-2.76.02-294.el7_6.noarch.rpm perl-Module-Loaded-0.08-294.el7_6.noarch.rpm perl-Object-Accessor-0.42-294.el7_6.noarch.rpm perl-Package-Constants-0.02-294.el7_6.noarch.rpm perl-Pod-Escapes-1.04-294.el7_6.noarch.rpm
x86_64: perl-5.16.3-294.el7_6.x86_64.rpm perl-Time-Piece-1.20.1-294.el7_6.x86_64.rpm perl-core-5.16.3-294.el7_6.x86_64.rpm perl-debuginfo-5.16.3-294.el7_6.i686.rpm perl-debuginfo-5.16.3-294.el7_6.x86_64.rpm perl-devel-5.16.3-294.el7_6.i686.rpm perl-devel-5.16.3-294.el7_6.x86_64.rpm perl-libs-5.16.3-294.el7_6.i686.rpm perl-libs-5.16.3-294.el7_6.x86_64.rpm perl-macros-5.16.3-294.el7_6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: perl-debuginfo-5.16.3-294.el7_6.x86_64.rpm perl-tests-5.16.3-294.el7_6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: perl-5.16.3-294.el7_6.src.rpm
noarch: perl-CPAN-1.9800-294.el7_6.noarch.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:0109-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0109
Issue date: 2019-01-21

Topic

An update for perl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow red hat important perl

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - noarch, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server (v. 7) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server Optional (v. 7) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x

Bugs Fixed

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

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