EUVD-2017-18614

Malware in sbrugna...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : perl vulnerability (USN-222-2)

USN-222-1 fixed a vulnerability in the Perl interpreter. It was discovered that the version of USN-222-1 was not sufficient to handle all possible cases of malformed input that could lead to arbitrary code execution, so another update is necessary. Original advisory : Jack Louis of Dyad Security...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : perl vulnerability (USN-222-1)

Jack Louis of Dyad Security discovered that Perl did not sufficiently check the explicit length argument in format strings. Specially crafted format strings with overly large length arguments led to a crash of the Perl interpreter or even to execution of arbitrary attacker-defined code with the...