USN-3478-2: Perl vulnerability
13 November 2017
Perl could be made to crash if it received specially crafted input.
Releases
Packages
- perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language
Details
USN-3478-1 fixed two vulnerabilities in Perl. This update
provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM.
Original advisory details:
Jakub Wilk 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.
(CVE-2017-12883)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 12.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References
Related notices
- USN-3478-1: libperl5.18, perl, perl-doc, perl-modules, perl-modules-5.22, libperl5.22, libperl-dev, perl-base, perl-debug, libcgi-fast-perl