USN-2916-1

It was discovered that Perl incorrectly handled certain regular expressions with an invalid backreference. An attacker could use this issue to cause Perl to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2013-7422)

Markus Vervier discovered that Perl incorrectly handled nesting in the Data::Dumper module. An attacker could use this issue to cause Perl to consume memory and crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-4330)

Stephane Chazelas discovered that Perl incorrectly handled duplicate environment variables. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass the taint protection mechanism. (CVE-2016-2381)

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / perl

Package

Name: perl
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/perl@5.18.2-2ubuntu1.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

5.18.2-2ubuntu1.1

Affected versions

5.*

5.14.2-21build1

5.18.1-4

5.18.1-4build1

5.18.1-5

5.18.2-2

5.18.2-2ubuntu1

Ecosystem specific

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        {
            "binary_name": "libperl-dev",
            "binary_version": "5.18.2-2ubuntu1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libperl5.18",
            "binary_version": "5.18.2-2ubuntu1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "perl",
            "binary_version": "5.18.2-2ubuntu1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "perl-base",
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        },
        {
            "binary_name": "perl-debug",
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        },
        {
            "binary_name": "perl-doc",
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        },
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            "binary_name": "perl-modules",
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