Updated libxml2 & perl-XML-LibXML packages fix security vulnerabilities

Use-after-free error could lead to crash CVE-2016-4658. Use-after-free vulnerability in libxml2 through 2.9.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to the XPointer range-to function CVE-2016-5131. libxml2 2.9.4 and earli...

MGASA-2018-0048 Updated libxml2 & perl-XML-LibXML packages fix security vulnerabilities

Use-after-free error could lead to crash CVE-2016-4658. Use-after-free vulnerability in libxml2 through 2.9.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to the XPointer range-to function CVE-2016-5131. libxml2 2.9.4 and earli...

MGASA-2018-0049 Updated perl packages fix security vulnerability

Jakub Wilk reported a heap buffer overflow flaw in the regular expression compiler, allowing a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a specially crafted regular expression with the case-insensitive modifier CVE-2017-12837. Jakub Wilk reported a buffer over-read flaw in the regular...

Updated perl packages fix security vulnerability

John Lightsey and Todd Rinaldo reported that the opportunistic loading of optional modules can make many programs unintentionally load code from the current working directory which might be changed to another directory without the user realising and potentially leading to privilege escalation...

Updated libxml2 packages fix security vulnerability

Integer overflow in memory debug code in libxml2 before 2.9.5 CVE-2017-5130. It was discovered that libxml2 incorrecty handled certain files. An attacker could use this issue with specially constructed XML data to cause libxml2 to consume resources, leading to a denial of service CVE-2017-15412...

Updated perl-DBD-mysql packages fix security vulnerability

Pali Rohar discovered that DBD::mysql constructed an error message in a fixed-length buffer, leading to a crash FORTIFYSOURCE failure and, potentially, to denial of service CVE-2016-1246. A vulnerability was discovered in perl-DBD-MySQL that can lead to an out-of-bounds read when using server sid...

MGASA-2018-0031 Updated perl-DBD-mysql packages fix security vulnerability

Pali Rohar discovered that DBD::mysql constructed an error message in a fixed-length buffer, leading to a crash FORTIFYSOURCE failure and, potentially, to denial of service CVE-2016-1246. A vulnerability was discovered in perl-DBD-MySQL that can lead to an out-of-bounds read when using server sid...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : perl-XML-Twig vulnerability (K08383757)

perl-XML-Twig: The option to expandexternalents, documented as controlling external entity expansion in XML::Twig does not work. External entities are always expanded, regardless of the option's setting. CVE-2016-9180 Impact An authenticated user with a BIG-IP ASM administrative role, such as...

The vulnerability of the ping function in the Net::Ping::External extension for Perl allows a hacker to execute arbitrary commands.

The vulnerability of the ping function in the Net::Ping::External extension for Perl is related to the lack of measures to sanitize input data. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands using metasynthesis...

Fedora Update for perl-DBD-MySQL FEDORA-2017-874bd165c0

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: perl-DBD-MySQL-4.043-6.fc27

DBD::mysql is the Perl5 Database Interface driver for the MySQL database. In other words: DBD::mysql is an interface between the Perl programming langua ge and the MySQL programming API that comes with the MySQL relational database management system...

PT-2018-17752 · Perl +3 · Perl +3

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Perl versions 5.22 through 5.26 Description: An issue was discovered where matching a crafted locale dependent regular expression can cause a heap-based buffer over-read and potentially information disclosure. Recommendations: For Perl versio...

Updated perl-Catalyst-Plugin-Static-Simple package fixes security vulnerability

The Catalyst-Plugin-Static-Simple module before 0.34 for Perl allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files if there is a '.' character anywhere in the pathname, which differs from the intended policy of allowing access only when the filename itself has a '.' character CVE-2017-16248...

MGASA-2017-0439 Updated perl-Catalyst-Plugin-Static-Simple package fixes security vulnerability

The Catalyst-Plugin-Static-Simple module before 0.34 for Perl allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files if there is a '.' character anywhere in the pathname, which differs from the intended policy of allowing access only when the filename itself has a '.' character CVE-2017-16248...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3494-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

USN-3494-1: XML::LibXML vulnerability

It was discovered that XML::LibXML incorrectly handled memory when processing a replaceChild call. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code...

USN-3494-1 libxml-libxml-perl vulnerability

It was discovered that XML::LibXML incorrectly handled memory when processing a replaceChild call. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code...

USN-3478-1: Perl vulnerabilities | Cloud Foundry

Severity Medium Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 14.04 Description 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...

openSUSE Security Update : perl (openSUSE-2017-1304)

This update for perl fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : - CVE-2017-12837: Heap-based buffer overflow in the Sregatom function in regcomp.c in Perl 5 before 5.24.3-RC1 and 5.26.x before 5.26.1-RC1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds write via a...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : perl (SUSE-SU-2017:3092-1)

This update for perl fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed : - CVE-2017-12837: Heap-based buffer overflow in the Sregatom function in regcomp.c in Perl 5 before 5.24.3-RC1 and 5.26.x before 5.26.1-RC1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds write via a regul...