All errata/sisyphus/ALT-PU-2017-1157-1
ALT-PU-2017-1157-1

Package update perl in branch sisyphus

Version5.24.1-alt1
Published2017-02-12
Max severityHIGH
Severity:

Closed issues (2)

CVE-2015-8853
HIGH7.5

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."

Published: 2016-05-25Modified: 2025-04-12
CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 5.0
CVSS:2.0/AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CVSS 3.xHIGH 7.5
CVSS:3.x/CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
References
CVE-2016-2381
HIGH7.5

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

Published: 2016-04-08Modified: 2025-04-12
CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 5.0
CVSS:2.0/AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
CVSS 3.xHIGH 7.5
CVSS:3.x/CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
References