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...

Debian DSA-3982-1 : perl - security update

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the implementation of the Perl programming language. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2017-12837 Jakub Wilk reported a heap buffer overflow flaw in the regular expression compiler, allowing a...

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 regular expression with a '\N' escape and the case-insensitive modifier...