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Package perl update in sisyphus on 2017-02-12

ALT-PU-2017-1157-1

Package perl updated to version 5.24.1-alt1 for branch sisyphus in task 177629.

Closed vulnerabilities

Published: 2016-05-25
Modified: 2025-04-12

CVE-2015-8853

The (1) S_reghop3, (2) S_reghop4, and (3) S_reghopmaybe3 functions in regexec.c in Perl before 5.24.0 allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via crafted utf-8 data, as demonstrated by "a\x80."

Severity: MEDIUM (5.0) Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Severity: HIGH (7.5) Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
References:
Published: 2016-04-08
Modified: 2025-04-12

CVE-2016-2381

Perl might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass the taint protection mechanism in a child process via duplicate environment variables in envp.

Severity: MEDIUM (5.0) Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Severity: HIGH (7.5) Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
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