-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2018.1739 perl security update 12 June 2018 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: perl Publisher: Debian Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 8 Debian GNU/Linux 9 UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX) Windows Impact/Access: Modify Arbitrary Files -- Remote with User Interaction Resolution: Patch/Upgrade CVE Names: CVE-2018-12015 Original Bulletin: http://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4226 Comment: This advisory references vulnerabilities in products which run on platforms other than Debian. It is recommended that administrators running perl check for an updated version of the software for their operating system. - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-4226-1 security@debian.org https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso June 12, 2018 https://www.debian.org/security/faq - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : perl CVE ID : CVE-2018-12015 Debian Bug : 900834 Jakub Wilk discovered a directory traversal flaw in the Archive::Tar module, allowing an attacker to overwrite any file writable by the extracting user via a specially crafted tar archive. For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 5.20.2-3+deb8u11. For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 5.24.1-3+deb9u4. We recommend that you upgrade your perl packages. 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