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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-18311: Security patch for perl (ALAS-2019-1180)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-18311: Security patch for perl (ALAS-2019-1180)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/29/2018
Created
04/22/2019
Added
04/01/2019
Modified
10/14/2022

Description

Perl before 5.26.3 and 5.28.x before 5.28.1 has a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression that triggers invalid write operations.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-perl

References

  • ALAS-2019-1180
  • USN-3834-1
  • USN-3834-2
  • DSA-4347
  • CVE-2018-18311

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