Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.703982
Category:	Debian Local Security Checks
Title:	Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-3982-1)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'perl' package(s) announced via the DSA-3982-1 advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'perl' package(s) announced via the DSA-3982-1 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the implementation of the Perl programming language. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2017-12837 Jakub Wilk reported a heap buffer overflow flaw in the regular expression compiler, allowing a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a specially crafted regular expression with the case-insensitive modifier. CVE-2017-12883 Jakub Wilk reported a buffer over-read flaw in the regular expression parser, allowing a remote attacker to cause a denial of service or information leak. For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 5.20.2-3+deb8u9. For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 5.24.1-3+deb9u2. For the testing distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version 5.26.0-8. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 5.26.0-8. We recommend that you upgrade your perl packages. Affected Software/OS: 'perl' package(s) on Debian 8, Debian 9. Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 6.4 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-12837 BugTraq ID: 100860 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100860 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1492091 https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/96c83ed78aeea1a0496dd2b2d935869a822dc8a5 https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/log/refs/tags/v5.24.3-RC1 https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/log/refs/tags/v5.26.1-RC1 https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=131582 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180426-0001/ Debian Security Information: DSA-3982 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3982 https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-12883 BugTraq ID: 100852 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100852 http://mirror.cucumberlinux.com/cucumber/cucumber-1.0/source/lang-base/perl/patches/CVE-2017-12883.patch https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1492093 https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/2be4edede4ae226e2eebd4eff28cedd2041f300f#patch1 https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=131598
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