USN-3834-2: Perl vulnerabilities
USN-3834-2: Perl vulnerabilities perl vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 12.04 ESM Summary Several security issues were fixed in Perl. Software Description perl – Practical Extraction and Report Language Details USN-3834-1 fixed a vulnerability in perl. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Jayakrishna Menon discovered that Perl incorrectly handled Perl_my_setenv. An attacker could use this issue to cause Perl to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-18311) Eiichi Tsukata 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. (CVE-2018-18313) Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 12.04 ESM perl – 5.14.2-6ubuntu2.9 To update your [ more… ]