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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2020-10878: Security patch for perl (ALAS-2021-1610)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2020-10878: Security patch for perl (ALAS-2021-1610)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/05/2020
Created
02/23/2021
Added
02/22/2021
Modified
09/30/2022

Description

Perl before 5.30.3 has an integer overflow related to mishandling of a "PL_regkind[OP(n)] == NOTHING" situation. A crafted regular expression could lead to malformed bytecode with a possibility of instruction injection.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-perl
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-perl-core
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-perl-cpan
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-perl-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-perl-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-perl-extutils-cbuilder
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-perl-extutils-embed
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-perl-extutils-install
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-perl-io-zlib
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-perl-libs
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-perl-locale-maketext-simple
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-perl-macros
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-perl-module-corelist
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-perl-module-loaded
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-perl-object-accessor
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-perl-package-constants
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-perl-pod-escapes
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-perl-tests
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-perl-time-piece

References

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