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VPR Score: 5.9
Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
This update for perl fixes the following issues :
These security issue were fixed :
CVE-2018-6913: Fixed space calculation issues in pp_pack.c (bsc#1082216).
CVE-2018-6798: Fixed heap buffer overflow in regexec.c (bsc#1082233).
CVE-2018-6797: Fixed sharp-s regexp overflow (bsc#1082234).
CVE-2018-12015: The Archive::Tar module allowed remote attackers to bypass a directory-traversal protection mechanism and overwrite arbitrary files (bsc#1096718)
The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-BCL-2018-1328=1