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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-10878: Moderate: perl security and bug fix update (ALSA-2021-1678)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-10878: Moderate: perl security and bug fix update (ALSA-2021-1678)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/05/2020
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
05/04/2022

Description

Perl before 5.30.3 has an integer overflow related to mishandling of a "PL_regkind[OP(n)] == NOTHING" situation. A crafted regular expression could lead to malformed bytecode with a possibility of instruction injection.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-perl
  • alma-upgrade-perl-Attribute-Handlers
  • alma-upgrade-perl-Devel-Peek
  • alma-upgrade-perl-Devel-SelfStubber
  • alma-upgrade-perl-Errno
  • alma-upgrade-perl-ExtUtils-Embed
  • alma-upgrade-perl-ExtUtils-Miniperl
  • alma-upgrade-perl-IO
  • alma-upgrade-perl-IO-Zlib
  • alma-upgrade-perl-Locale-Maketext-Simple
  • alma-upgrade-perl-Math-Complex
  • alma-upgrade-perl-Memoize
  • alma-upgrade-perl-Module-Loaded
  • alma-upgrade-perl-Net-Ping
  • alma-upgrade-perl-Pod-Html
  • alma-upgrade-perl-SelfLoader
  • alma-upgrade-perl-Test
  • alma-upgrade-perl-Time-Piece
  • alma-upgrade-perl-devel
  • alma-upgrade-perl-interpreter
  • alma-upgrade-perl-libnetcfg
  • alma-upgrade-perl-libs
  • alma-upgrade-perl-macros
  • alma-upgrade-perl-open
  • alma-upgrade-perl-tests
  • alma-upgrade-perl-utils

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