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Perl vulnerabilities

2018-04-1600:00:00
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40

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

9.2 High

AI Score

Confidence

Low

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

0.03 Low

EPSS

Percentile

90.9%

Releases

  • Ubuntu 17.10
  • Ubuntu 16.04 ESM
  • Ubuntu 14.04 ESM

Packages

  • perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language

Details

It was discovered that Perl incorrectly handled certain regular
expressions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Perl to
hang, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu
14.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-8853)

It was discovered that Perl incorrectly loaded libraries from the current
working directory. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to
execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-6185)

It was discovered that Perl incorrectly handled the rmtree and remove_tree
functions. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to set the mode
on arbitrary files. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu
16.04 LTS. (CVE-2017-6512)

Brian Carpenter 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. This
issue has only been addressed in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 17.10.
(CVE-2018-6797)

Nguyen Duc Manh 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. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
and Ubuntu 17.10. (CVE-2018-6798)

GwanYeong Kim discovered that Perl incorrectly handled certain data when
using the pack function. An attacker could use this issue to cause Perl to
crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary
code. (CVE-2018-6913)

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Ubuntu17.10noarchperl< 5.26.0-8ubuntu1.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu17.10noarchlibperl-dev< 5.26.0-8ubuntu1.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu17.10noarchlibperl5.26< 5.26.0-8ubuntu1.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu17.10noarchperl-base< 5.26.0-8ubuntu1.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu17.10noarchperl-debug< 5.26.0-8ubuntu1.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu17.10noarchperl-doc< 5.26.0-8ubuntu1.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu17.10noarchperl-modules-5.26< 5.26.0-8ubuntu1.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu16.04noarchperl< 5.22.1-9ubuntu0.3UNKNOWN
Ubuntu16.04noarchlibperl-dev< 5.22.1-9ubuntu0.3UNKNOWN
Ubuntu16.04noarchlibperl5.22< 5.22.1-9ubuntu0.3UNKNOWN
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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

9.2 High

AI Score

Confidence

Low

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

0.03 Low

EPSS

Percentile

90.9%