RHSA-2013:0685Medium

Red Hat Security Advisory: perl security update

Published
March 26, 2013
Last Modified
October 11, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (4)

CVE-2013-1667 →CVE-2012-5195 →CVE-2012-5526 →CVE-2012-6329 →

📋 Description

CVE-2012-5195 — perl: heap buffer overrun flaw may lead to arbitrary code execution CVE-2012-5526 — perl-CGI: Newline injection due to improper CRLF escaping in Set-Cookie and P3P headers CVE-2012-6329 — perl: possible arbitrary code execution via Locale::Maketext CVE-2013-1667 — perl: DoS in rehashing code

🎯 Affected products200

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • perl-4:5.10.1-130.el6_4.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • perl-4:5.10.1-130.el6_4.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • perl-4:5.10.1-130.el6_4.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • perl-4:5.10.1-130.el6_4.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • perl-4:5.10.1-130.el6_4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • perl-4:5.10.1-130.el6_4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • perl-4:5.10.1-130.el6_4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6)
  • perl-4:5.10.1-130.el6_4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • perl-4:5.10.1-130.el6_4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • perl-4:5.10.1-130.el6_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • perl-4:5.10.1-130.el6_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6)
  • perl-4:5.10.1-130.el6_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • perl-4:5.10.1-130.el6_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • perl-4:5.8.8-40.el5_9.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • perl-4:5.8.8-40.el5_9.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • perl-4:5.8.8-40.el5_9.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • perl-4:5.8.8-40.el5_9.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • perl-4:5.8.8-40.el5_9.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • perl-4:5.8.8-40.el5_9.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • perl-Archive-Extract-1:0.38-130.el6_4.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • perl-Archive-Extract-1:0.38-130.el6_4.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • perl-Archive-Extract-1:0.38-130.el6_4.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • perl-Archive-Extract-1:0.38-130.el6_4.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • perl-Archive-Extract-1:0.38-130.el6_4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • perl-Archive-Extract-1:0.38-130.el6_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
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✅ Remediation

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

🔗 References (7)