Mageia alert MGASA-2018-0241 (perl)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2018-0241: Updated perl packages fix security vulnerabilities 
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Wed, 16 May 2018 10:25:53 +0200
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MGASA-2018-0241 - Updated perl packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 16 May 2018
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0241.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 6
CVE: CVE-2018-6797,
     CVE-2018-6798,
     CVE-2018-6913

Description:
Brian Carpenter reported that a crafted regular expression could cause
a heap buffer write overflow, with control over the bytes written
(CVE-2018-6797).

Nguyen Duc Manh reported that matching a crafted locale dependent
regular expression can cause a heap-based buffer over-read and
potentially information disclosure (CVE-2018-6798).

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=22913
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4172
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-6797
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-6798
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-6913

SRPMS:
- 6/core/perl-5.22.3-3.2.mga6