USN-1770-1: Perl vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 12.10
• Ubuntu 12.04
• Ubuntu 11.10
• Ubuntu 10.04
• Ubuntu 8.04

Packages

• perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language

Details

Yves Orton discovered that Perl incorrectly handled hashing when using
user-provided hash keys. An attacker could use this flaw to perform a
denial of service attack against software written in Perl.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 8.04

• perl - 5.8.8-12ubuntu0.8

Ubuntu 12.10

• perl - 5.14.2-13ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 12.04

• perl - 5.14.2-6ubuntu2.3

Ubuntu 11.10

• perl - 5.12.4-4ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 10.04

• perl - 5.10.1-8ubuntu2.3

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2013-1667