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High ALAS2-2019-1166 1 CVE

Important: perl security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Mar 7, 2019 · Updated Mar 8, 2019

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-18311: Perl before 5.26.3 and 5.28.x before 5.28.1 has a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression that triggers invalid write operations. 1646730: CVE-2018-18311 perl: Integer overflow leading to buffer overflow in Perl_my_setenv()

Fixed packages 19

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 perl 4:5.16.3-294.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perl-core 0:5.16.3-294.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perl-CPAN 0:1.9800-294.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perl-debuginfo 4:5.16.3-294.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perl-devel 4:5.16.3-294.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder 1:0.28.2.6-294.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perl-ExtUtils-Embed 0:1.30-294.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perl-ExtUtils-Install 0:1.58-294.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perl-IO-Zlib 1:1.10-294.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perl-libs 4:5.16.3-294.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perl-Locale-Maketext-Simple 1:0.21-294.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perl-macros 4:5.16.3-294.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perl-Module-CoreList 1:2.76.02-294.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perl-Module-Loaded 1:0.08-294.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perl-Object-Accessor 1:0.42-294.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perl-Package-Constants 1:0.02-294.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perl-Pod-Escapes 1:1.04-294.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perl-tests 4:5.16.3-294.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perl-Time-Piece 0:1.20.1-294.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2018-18311.html