USN-3478-1

Jakub Wilk discovered that Perl incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. An attacker could use this issue to cause Perl to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-12837, CVE-2017-12883)

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / perl

Package

Name: perl
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/perl@5.18.2-2ubuntu1.3?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

5.18.2-2ubuntu1.3

Affected versions

5.*

5.14.2-21build1

5.18.1-4

5.18.1-4build1

5.18.1-5

5.18.2-2

5.18.2-2ubuntu1

5.18.2-2ubuntu1.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libcgi-fast-perl",
            "binary_version": "5.18.2-2ubuntu1.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libperl-dev",
            "binary_version": "5.18.2-2ubuntu1.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libperl5.18",
            "binary_version": "5.18.2-2ubuntu1.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "perl",
            "binary_version": "5.18.2-2ubuntu1.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "perl-base",
            "binary_version": "5.18.2-2ubuntu1.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "perl-debug",
            "binary_version": "5.18.2-2ubuntu1.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "perl-modules",
            "binary_version": "5.18.2-2ubuntu1.3"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2017-12837",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2017-12883",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / perl

Package

Name: perl
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/perl@5.22.1-9ubuntu0.2?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

5.22.1-9ubuntu0.2

Affected versions

5.*

5.20.2-6

5.22.1-3

5.22.1-4

5.22.1-5

5.22.1-7

5.22.1-8

5.22.1-9

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libperl-dev",
            "binary_version": "5.22.1-9ubuntu0.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libperl5.22",
            "binary_version": "5.22.1-9ubuntu0.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "perl",
            "binary_version": "5.22.1-9ubuntu0.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "perl-base",
            "binary_version": "5.22.1-9ubuntu0.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "perl-debug",
            "binary_version": "5.22.1-9ubuntu0.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "perl-modules-5.22",
            "binary_version": "5.22.1-9ubuntu0.2"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:16.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2017-12837",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2017-12883",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}