Advisories » MGASA-2018-0247

Updated perl packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 16 May 2018
Modification date: 16 May 2018
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2018-6913

Description

GwanYeong Kim reported that 'pack()' could cause a heap buffer write
overflow with a large item count (CVE-2018-6913).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22992
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4172
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-6913

SRPMS

5/core

• perl-5.20.1-8.8.mga5