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CentOS Update for perl CESA-2019:0109 centos7

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

CentOS Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.5

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

5 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update for the 'perl' package(s) announced via the CESA-2019:0109 advisory.

Insight

Insight

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, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Red Hat would like to thank the Perl project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Jayakrishna Menon as the original reporter.

Affected Software

Affected Software

perl on CentOS 7.

Detection Method

Detection Method

Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.

Solution

Solution

Please install the updated package(s).

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)