USN-3478-2: Perl vulnerability
USN-3478-2: Perl vulnerability Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3478-2 13th November, 2017 perl vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary Perl could be made to crash if it received specially crafted input. Software description perl – Practical Extraction and Report Language Details USN-3478-1 fixed two vulnerabilities in Perl. This updateprovides 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 version: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: perl 5.14.2-6ubuntu2.6 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. In general, a standard system update will make all the [ more… ]