SB2016042120 - Fedora 22 update for perl
Published: April 21, 2016 Updated: April 24, 2025
Security Bulletin ID
SB2016042120
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Adjecent network
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Infinite loop (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-8853)
The vulnerability allows an adjacent attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.The weakness exists in the (1) S_reghop3, (2) S_reghop4, and (3) S_reghopmaybe3 functions in regexec.c due to infinite loop. An adjacent attacker can submit specially crafted utf-8 data, as demonstrated by "ax80", and cause the service to crash.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.