Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2019-1166
Advisory Release Date: 2019-03-07 18:29 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2019-03-08 00:39 Pacific
Severity:
Important
Issue Overview:
Perl has a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression that triggers invalid write operations.(CVE-2018-18311)
Affected Packages:
perl
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update perl to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
perl-5.16.3-294.amzn2.aarch64
perl-libs-5.16.3-294.amzn2.aarch64
perl-devel-5.16.3-294.amzn2.aarch64
perl-macros-5.16.3-294.amzn2.aarch64
perl-tests-5.16.3-294.amzn2.aarch64
perl-Time-Piece-1.20.1-294.amzn2.aarch64
perl-core-5.16.3-294.amzn2.aarch64
perl-debuginfo-5.16.3-294.amzn2.aarch64
i686:
perl-5.16.3-294.amzn2.i686
perl-libs-5.16.3-294.amzn2.i686
perl-devel-5.16.3-294.amzn2.i686
perl-macros-5.16.3-294.amzn2.i686
perl-tests-5.16.3-294.amzn2.i686
perl-Time-Piece-1.20.1-294.amzn2.i686
perl-core-5.16.3-294.amzn2.i686
perl-debuginfo-5.16.3-294.amzn2.i686
noarch:
perl-CPAN-1.9800-294.amzn2.noarch
perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.28.2.6-294.amzn2.noarch
perl-ExtUtils-Embed-1.30-294.amzn2.noarch
perl-ExtUtils-Install-1.58-294.amzn2.noarch
perl-IO-Zlib-1.10-294.amzn2.noarch
perl-Locale-Maketext-Simple-0.21-294.amzn2.noarch
perl-Module-CoreList-2.76.02-294.amzn2.noarch
perl-Module-Loaded-0.08-294.amzn2.noarch
perl-Object-Accessor-0.42-294.amzn2.noarch
perl-Package-Constants-0.02-294.amzn2.noarch
perl-Pod-Escapes-1.04-294.amzn2.noarch
src:
perl-5.16.3-294.amzn2.src
x86_64:
perl-5.16.3-294.amzn2.x86_64
perl-libs-5.16.3-294.amzn2.x86_64
perl-devel-5.16.3-294.amzn2.x86_64
perl-macros-5.16.3-294.amzn2.x86_64
perl-tests-5.16.3-294.amzn2.x86_64
perl-Time-Piece-1.20.1-294.amzn2.x86_64
perl-core-5.16.3-294.amzn2.x86_64
perl-debuginfo-5.16.3-294.amzn2.x86_64