SUSE-SU-2018:1972-2

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Source
https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2018/suse-su-20181972-2/
Import Source
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/osv/SUSE-SU-2018:1972-2.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/SUSE-SU-2018:1972-2
Related
Published
2018-10-18T12:47:55Z
Modified
2018-10-18T12:47:55Z
Summary
Security update for perl
Details

This update for perl fixes the following issues:

These security issue were fixed:

  • CVE-2018-6913: Fixed space calculation issues in pp_pack.c (bsc#1082216).
  • CVE-2018-6798: Fixed heap buffer overflow in regexec.c (bsc#1082233).
  • CVE-2018-6797: Fixed sharp-s regexp overflow (bsc#1082234).
  • CVE-2018-12015: The Archive::Tar module allowed remote attackers to bypass a directory-traversal protection mechanism and overwrite arbitrary files (bsc#1096718)

This non-security issue was fixed:

  • fix debugger crash in tab completion with Term::ReadLine::Gnu [bsc#1068565]
References

Affected packages

SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL / perl

Package

Name
perl
Purl
purl:rpm/suse/perl&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-BCL

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.18.2-12.14.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "perl": "5.18.2-12.14.1",
            "perl-32bit": "5.18.2-12.14.1",
            "perl-base": "5.18.2-12.14.1",
            "perl-doc": "5.18.2-12.14.1"
        }
    ]
}