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HistoryJan 24, 2019 - 3:18 p.m.

perl security update

2019-01-2415:18:07
CentOS Project
lists.centos.org
355

9.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

7.5 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.005 Low

EPSS

Percentile

76.8%

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2019:0109

Perl is a high-level programming language that is commonly used for system administration utilities and web programming.

Security Fix(es):

  • perl: Integer overflow leading to buffer overflow in Perl_my_setenv() (CVE-2018-18311)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Red Hat would like to thank the Perl project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Jayakrishna Menon as the original reporter.

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-January/085310.html

Affected packages:
perl
perl-CPAN
perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder
perl-ExtUtils-Embed
perl-ExtUtils-Install
perl-IO-Zlib
perl-Locale-Maketext-Simple
perl-Module-CoreList
perl-Module-Loaded
perl-Object-Accessor
perl-Package-Constants
perl-Pod-Escapes
perl-Time-Piece
perl-core
perl-devel
perl-libs
perl-macros
perl-tests

Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0109

9.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

7.5 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.005 Low

EPSS

Percentile

76.8%