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CentOS Linux: CVE-2018-18311: Important: perl security update (CESA-2019:0109)

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CentOS Linux: CVE-2018-18311: Important: perl security update (CESA-2019:0109)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/29/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
01/25/2019
Modified
05/25/2023

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)

  • centos-upgrade-perl
  • centos-upgrade-perl-core
  • centos-upgrade-perl-cpan
  • centos-upgrade-perl-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-perl-devel
  • centos-upgrade-perl-extutils-cbuilder
  • centos-upgrade-perl-extutils-embed
  • centos-upgrade-perl-extutils-install
  • centos-upgrade-perl-io-zlib
  • centos-upgrade-perl-libs
  • centos-upgrade-perl-locale-maketext-simple
  • centos-upgrade-perl-macros
  • centos-upgrade-perl-module-corelist
  • centos-upgrade-perl-module-loaded
  • centos-upgrade-perl-object-accessor
  • centos-upgrade-perl-package-constants
  • centos-upgrade-perl-pod-escapes
  • centos-upgrade-perl-tests
  • centos-upgrade-perl-time-piece

References

  • 106145
  • DSA-4347
  • CVE-2018-18311
  • RHBA-2019:0327
  • RHSA-2019:0001
  • RHSA-2019:0010
  • RHSA-2019:0109
  • RHSA-2019:1790
  • RHSA-2019:1942
  • RHSA-2019:2400
  • USN-3834-1
  • USN-3834-2
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