FreeBSD : perl -- multiple vulnerabilities (41c96ffd-29a6-4dcc-9a88-65f5038fa6eb)
High Nessus Plugin ID 109051
Synopsis
The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
Description
perldelta :
CVE-2018-6797: heap-buffer-overflow (WRITE of size 1) in S_regatom (regcomp.c)
A crafted regular expression could cause a heap buffer write overflow, with control over the bytes written. [perl #132227]
CVE-2018-6798: Heap-buffer-overflow in Perl__byte_dump_string (utf8.c)
Matching a crafted locale dependent regular expression could cause a heap buffer read overflow and potentially information disclosure.
[perl #132063]
CVE-2018-6913: heap-buffer-overflow in S_pack_rec
pack() could cause a heap buffer write overflow with a large item count. [perl #131844]
Solution
Update the affected packages.