RHSA-2019:1942 — Security Advisory

An update for perl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Perl is a high-level programming language that is commonly used for system administration utilities and web programming.

Security Fix(es):

• perl: Integer overflow leading to buffer overflow in Perl_my_setenv() (CVE-2018-18311)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.