DSA-4347-1 perl -- security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-18311   CVE-2018-18312   CVE-2018-18313   CVE-2018-18314  

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the implementation of the Perl programming language. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2018-18311 Jayakrishna Menon and Christophe Hauser discovered an integer overflow vulnerability in Perl_my_setenv leading to a heap-based buffer overflow with attacker-controlled input. CVE-2018-18312 Eiichi Tsukata discovered that a crafted regular expression could cause a heap-based buffer overflow write during compilation, potentially allowing arbitrary code execution. CVE-2018-18313 Eiichi Tsukata discovered that a crafted regular expression could cause a heap-based buffer overflow read during compilation which leads to information leak. CVE-2018-18314 Jakub Wilk discovered that a specially crafted regular expression could lead to a heap-based buffer overflow. For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 5.24.1-3+deb9u5. We recommend that you upgrade your perl packages. For the detailed security status of perl please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/perl

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4347-1 perl -- security update

Date Reported:
29 Nov 2018
Affected Packages:
perl
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-18311, CVE-2018-18312, CVE-2018-18313, CVE-2018-18314.
More information:

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the implementation of the Perl programming language. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

  • CVE-2018-18311

    Jayakrishna Menon and Christophe Hauser discovered an integer overflow vulnerability in Perl_my_setenv leading to a heap-based buffer overflow with attacker-controlled input.

  • CVE-2018-18312

    Eiichi Tsukata discovered that a crafted regular expression could cause a heap-based buffer overflow write during compilation, potentially allowing arbitrary code execution.

  • CVE-2018-18313

    Eiichi Tsukata discovered that a crafted regular expression could cause a heap-based buffer overflow read during compilation which leads to information leak.

  • CVE-2018-18314

    Jakub Wilk discovered that a specially crafted regular expression could lead to a heap-based buffer overflow.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 5.24.1-3+deb9u5.

We recommend that you upgrade your perl packages.

For the detailed security status of perl please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/perl