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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2018-18311) ELSA-2019-0109: perl security update

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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2018-18311) ELSA-2019-0109: perl security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/29/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
01/22/2019
Modified
09/16/2019

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)

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

References

  • ELSA-2019-0109
  • USN-3834-1
  • USN-3834-2
  • DSA-4347
  • CVE-2018-18311

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