Moderate: perl security update

Synopsis

Moderate: perl security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for perl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Perl is a high-level programming language that is commonly used for system administration utilities and web programming.

Security Fix(es):

• perl: corruption of intermediate language state of compiled regular expression due to recursive S_study_chunk() calls leads to DoS (CVE-2020-12723)
  

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 1838000 - CVE-2020-12723 perl: corruption of intermediate language state of compiled regular expression due to recursive S_study_chunk() calls leads to DoS

CVEs

• CVE-2020-12723

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate