Issued:
2019-07-16
Updated:
2019-07-16

RHSA-2019:1790 - Important: perl security update

Synopsis

Important: perl security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for perl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Perl is a high-level programming language that is commonly used for system administration utilities and web programming.

Security Fix(es):

  • perl: Integer overflow leading to buffer overflow in Perl_my_setenv() (CVE-2018-18311)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support7.5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support7.5ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support7.5ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support7.5s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node7.5x86_64

Updated Packages

  • perl-devel-5.16.3-292.el7_5.1.s390x.rpm
  • perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.28.2.6-292.el7_5.1.noarch.rpm
  • perl-Module-Loaded-0.08-292.el7_5.1.noarch.rpm
  • perl-core-5.16.3-292.el7_5.1.x86_64.rpm
  • perl-libs-5.16.3-292.el7_5.1.ppc64.rpm
  • perl-debuginfo-5.16.3-292.el7_5.1.x86_64.rpm
  • perl-Locale-Maketext-Simple-0.21-292.el7_5.1.noarch.rpm
  • perl-Pod-Escapes-1.04-292.el7_5.1.noarch.rpm
  • perl-core-5.16.3-292.el7_5.1.ppc64le.rpm
  • perl-libs-5.16.3-292.el7_5.1.ppc64le.rpm
  • perl-tests-5.16.3-292.el7_5.1.x86_64.rpm
  • perl-IO-Zlib-1.10-292.el7_5.1.noarch.rpm
  • perl-debuginfo-5.16.3-292.el7_5.1.s390x.rpm
  • perl-Module-CoreList-2.76.02-292.el7_5.1.noarch.rpm
  • perl-devel-5.16.3-292.el7_5.1.ppc64le.rpm
  • perl-5.16.3-292.el7_5.1.x86_64.rpm
  • perl-ExtUtils-Embed-1.30-292.el7_5.1.noarch.rpm
  • perl-devel-5.16.3-292.el7_5.1.i686.rpm
  • perl-5.16.3-292.el7_5.1.s390x.rpm
  • perl-5.16.3-292.el7_5.1.src.rpm
  • perl-ExtUtils-Install-1.58-292.el7_5.1.noarch.rpm
  • perl-5.16.3-292.el7_5.1.ppc64le.rpm
  • perl-5.16.3-292.el7_5.1.ppc64.rpm
  • perl-Time-Piece-1.20.1-292.el7_5.1.ppc64.rpm
  • perl-core-5.16.3-292.el7_5.1.ppc64.rpm
  • perl-Package-Constants-0.02-292.el7_5.1.noarch.rpm
  • perl-Time-Piece-1.20.1-292.el7_5.1.ppc64le.rpm
  • perl-Time-Piece-1.20.1-292.el7_5.1.s390x.rpm
  • perl-core-5.16.3-292.el7_5.1.s390x.rpm
  • perl-debuginfo-5.16.3-292.el7_5.1.ppc64.rpm
  • perl-debuginfo-5.16.3-292.el7_5.1.s390.rpm
  • perl-Time-Piece-1.20.1-292.el7_5.1.x86_64.rpm
  • perl-debuginfo-5.16.3-292.el7_5.1.i686.rpm
  • perl-CPAN-1.9800-292.el7_5.1.noarch.rpm
  • perl-libs-5.16.3-292.el7_5.1.ppc.rpm
  • perl-libs-5.16.3-292.el7_5.1.s390.rpm
  • perl-libs-5.16.3-292.el7_5.1.s390x.rpm
  • perl-libs-5.16.3-292.el7_5.1.x86_64.rpm
  • perl-debuginfo-5.16.3-292.el7_5.1.ppc.rpm
  • perl-Object-Accessor-0.42-292.el7_5.1.noarch.rpm
  • perl-devel-5.16.3-292.el7_5.1.ppc64.rpm
  • perl-macros-5.16.3-292.el7_5.1.ppc64.rpm
  • perl-macros-5.16.3-292.el7_5.1.ppc64le.rpm
  • perl-macros-5.16.3-292.el7_5.1.s390x.rpm
  • perl-macros-5.16.3-292.el7_5.1.x86_64.rpm
  • perl-devel-5.16.3-292.el7_5.1.ppc.rpm
  • perl-devel-5.16.3-292.el7_5.1.s390.rpm
  • perl-devel-5.16.3-292.el7_5.1.x86_64.rpm
  • perl-libs-5.16.3-292.el7_5.1.i686.rpm
  • perl-tests-5.16.3-292.el7_5.1.ppc64.rpm
  • perl-tests-5.16.3-292.el7_5.1.ppc64le.rpm
  • perl-tests-5.16.3-292.el7_5.1.s390x.rpm
  • perl-debuginfo-5.16.3-292.el7_5.1.ppc64le.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information