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(bsc#988311)\n- CVE-2016-1238: Searching current directory for optional modules. (bsc#987887)\n- CVE-2015-8853: Regular expression engine hanging on bad utf8. (bsc)\n- CVE-2016-2381: Environment dup handling bug. (bsc#967082)\n- 'Insecure dependency in require' error in taint mode. (bsc#984906)\n- Memory leak in 'use utf8' handling. (bsc#928292)\n- Missing lock prototype to the debugger. (bsc#932894)\n","status":"published","published":"2016-09-08T09:37:50Z","modified":"2026-02-04T02:42:35.667255Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:53:43.438985Z"},{"id":"SUSE-SU-2017:2699-1","title":"Security update for SLES 12 Docker image","description":"The SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 container image has been updated to include\nsecurity and stability fixes.\n\nThe following issues related to building of the container images have been fixed:\n\n- Included krb5 package to avoid the inclusion of krb5-mini which gets selected as a\n  dependency by the Build Service solver. (bsc#1056193)\n- Do not install recommended packages when building container images. (bsc#975726)\n\nA number of security issues that have been already fixed by updates released for\nSUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 are now included in the base image. A package/CVE\ncross-reference is available below.\n\npam:\n\n- CVE-2015-3238\n\nlibtasn1:\n\n- CVE-2015-3622\n- CVE-2016-4008\n\nlibidn:\n\n- CVE-2015-2059\n- CVE-2015-8948\n- CVE-2016-6261\n- CVE-2016-6262\n- CVE-2016-6263\n\nzlib:\n\n- CVE-2016-9840\n- CVE-2016-9841\n- CVE-2016-9842\n- CVE-2016-9843\n\ncurl:\n\n- CVE-2016-5419\n- CVE-2016-5420\n- CVE-2016-5421\n- CVE-2016-7141\n- CVE-2016-7167\n- CVE-2016-8615\n- CVE-2016-8616\n- CVE-2016-8617\n- CVE-2016-8618\n- CVE-2016-8619\n- CVE-2016-8620\n- CVE-2016-8621\n- CVE-2016-8622\n- CVE-2016-8623\n- CVE-2016-8624\n- CVE-2016-9586\n- CVE-2017-1000100\n- CVE-2017-1000101\n- CVE-2017-7407\n\nopenssl:\n\n- CVE-2016-2105\n- CVE-2016-2106\n- CVE-2016-2107\n- CVE-2016-2108\n- CVE-2016-2109\n- CVE-2016-2177\n- CVE-2016-2178\n- CVE-2016-2179\n- CVE-2016-2180\n- CVE-2016-2181\n- CVE-2016-2182\n- CVE-2016-2183\n- CVE-2016-6302\n- CVE-2016-6303\n- CVE-2016-6304\n- CVE-2016-6306\n\nlibxml2:\n\n- CVE-2014-0191\n- CVE-2015-8806\n- CVE-2016-1762\n- CVE-2016-1833\n- CVE-2016-1834\n- CVE-2016-1835\n- CVE-2016-1837\n- CVE-2016-1838\n- CVE-2016-1839\n- CVE-2016-1840\n- CVE-2016-2073\n- CVE-2016-3627\n- CVE-2016-3705\n- CVE-2016-4447\n- CVE-2016-4448\n- CVE-2016-4449\n- CVE-2016-4483\n- CVE-2016-4658\n- CVE-2016-9318\n- CVE-2016-9597\n- CVE-2017-9047\n- CVE-2017-9048\n- CVE-2017-9049\n- CVE-2017-9050\n\nutil-linux:\n\n- CVE-2015-5218\n- CVE-2016-5011\n- CVE-2017-2616\n\ncracklib:\n\n- CVE-2016-6318\n\nsystemd:\n\n- CVE-2014-9770\n- CVE-2015-8842\n- CVE-2016-7796\n\npcre:\n\n- CVE-2014-8964\n- CVE-2015-2325\n- CVE-2015-2327\n- CVE-2015-2328\n- CVE-2015-3210\n- CVE-2015-3217\n- CVE-2015-5073\n- CVE-2015-8380\n- CVE-2015-8381\n- CVE-2015-8382\n- CVE-2015-8383\n- CVE-2015-8384\n- CVE-2015-8385\n- CVE-2015-8386\n- CVE-2015-8387\n- CVE-2015-8388\n- CVE-2015-8389\n- CVE-2015-8390\n- CVE-2015-8391\n- CVE-2015-8392\n- CVE-2015-8393\n- CVE-2015-8394\n- CVE-2015-8395\n- CVE-2016-1283\n- CVE-2016-3191\n\nappamor:\n\n- CVE-2017-6507\n\nbash:\n\n- CVE-2014-6277\n- CVE-2014-6278\n- CVE-2016-0634\n- CVE-2016-7543\n\ncpio:\n\n- CVE-2016-2037\n\nglibc:\n\n- CVE-2016-1234\n- CVE-2016-3075\n- CVE-2016-3706\n- CVE-2016-4429\n- CVE-2017-1000366\n\nperl:\n\n- CVE-2015-8853\n- CVE-2016-1238\n- CVE-2016-2381\n- CVE-2016-6185\n\nlibssh2_org:\n\n- CVE-2016-0787\n\nexpat:\n\n- CVE-2012-6702\n- CVE-2015-1283\n- CVE-2016-0718\n- CVE-2016-5300\n- CVE-2016-9063\n- CVE-2017-9233\n\nncurses:\n\n- CVE-2017-10684\n- CVE-2017-10685\n- CVE-2017-11112\n- CVE-2017-11113\n\nlibksba:\n\n- CVE-2016-4574\n- CVE-2016-4579\n\nlibgcrypt:\n\n- CVE-2015-7511\n- CVE-2016-6313\n- CVE-2017-7526\n\ndbus-1:\n\n- CVE-2014-7824\n- CVE-2015-0245\n\nFinally, the following packages received non-security fixes:\n\n- augeas\n- bzip2\n- ca-certificates-mozilla\n- coreutils\n- cryptsetup\n- cyrus-sasl\n- dirmngr\n- e2fsprogs\n- findutils\n- gpg2\n- insserv-compat\n- kmod\n- libcap\n- libsolv\n- libzypp\n- openldap2\n- p11-kit\n- permissions\n- procps\n- rpm\n- sed\n- shadow\n- zypper\n","status":"published","published":"2017-10-10T19:37:24Z","modified":"2026-02-04T03:24:03.922844Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:53:44.209561Z"},{"id":"SUSE-SU-2017:2700-1","title":"Security update for SLES 12-SP1 Docker image","description":"The SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 container image has been updated to include\nsecurity and stability fixes.\n\nThe following issues related to building of the container images have been fixed:\n\n- Included krb5 package to avoid the inclusion of krb5-mini which gets selected as a\n  dependency by the Build Service solver. (bsc#1056193)\n- Do not install recommended packages when building container images. (bsc#975726)\n\nA number of security issues that have been already fixed by updates released for\nSUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 are now included in the base image. A package/CVE\ncross-reference is available below.\n\npam:\n\n- CVE-2015-3238\n\nlibtasn1:\n\n- CVE-2015-3622\n- CVE-2016-4008\n\nexpat:\n\nexpat:\n\n- CVE-2012-6702\n- CVE-2015-1283\n- CVE-2016-0718\n- CVE-2016-5300\n- CVE-2016-9063\n- CVE-2017-9233\n\nlibidn:\n\n- CVE-2015-2059\n- CVE-2015-8948\n- CVE-2016-6261\n- CVE-2016-6262\n- CVE-2016-6263\n\n\nzlib:\n\n- CVE-2016-9840\n- CVE-2016-9841\n- CVE-2016-9842\n- CVE-2016-9843\n\ncurl:\n\n- CVE-2016-5419\n- CVE-2016-5420\n- CVE-2016-5421\n- CVE-2016-7141\n- CVE-2016-7167\n- CVE-2016-8615\n- CVE-2016-8616\n- CVE-2016-8617\n- CVE-2016-8618\n- CVE-2016-8619\n- CVE-2016-8620\n- CVE-2016-8621\n- CVE-2016-8622\n- CVE-2016-8623\n- CVE-2016-8624\n- CVE-2016-9586\n- CVE-2017-1000100\n- CVE-2017-1000101\n- CVE-2017-7407\n\nopenssl:\n\n- CVE-2016-2105\n- CVE-2016-2106\n- CVE-2016-2107\n- CVE-2016-2108\n- CVE-2016-2109\n- CVE-2016-2177\n- CVE-2016-2178\n- CVE-2016-2179\n- CVE-2016-2180\n- CVE-2016-2181\n- CVE-2016-2182\n- CVE-2016-2183\n- CVE-2016-6302\n- CVE-2016-6303\n- CVE-2016-6304\n- CVE-2016-6306\n- CVE-2016-7056\n- CVE-2016-8610\n- CVE-2017-3731\n\ncracklib:\n\n- CVE-2016-6318\n\npcre:\n\n- CVE-2014-8964\n- CVE-2015-2325\n- CVE-2015-2327\n- CVE-2015-2328\n- CVE-2015-3210\n- CVE-2015-3217\n- CVE-2015-5073\n- CVE-2015-8380\n- CVE-2015-8381\n- CVE-2015-8382\n- CVE-2015-8383\n- CVE-2015-8384\n- CVE-2015-8385\n- CVE-2015-8386\n- CVE-2015-8387\n- CVE-2015-8388\n- CVE-2015-8389\n- CVE-2015-8390\n- CVE-2015-8391\n- CVE-2015-8392\n- CVE-2015-8393\n- CVE-2015-8394\n- CVE-2015-8395\n- CVE-2016-1283\n- CVE-2016-3191\n\nappamor:\n\n- CVE-2017-6507\n\nbash:\n\n- CVE-2014-6277\n- CVE-2014-6278\n- CVE-2016-0634\n- CVE-2016-7543\n\ncpio:\n\n- CVE-2016-2037\n\nglibc:\n\n- CVE-2016-1234\n- CVE-2016-3075\n- CVE-2016-3706\n- CVE-2016-4429\n- CVE-2017-1000366\n\nperl:\n\n- CVE-2015-8853\n- CVE-2016-1238\n- CVE-2016-2381\n- CVE-2016-6185\n\nlibssh2_org:\n\n- CVE-2016-0787\n\nutil-linux:\n\n- CVE-2016-5011\n- CVE-2017-2616\n\nncurses:\n\n- CVE-2017-10684\n- CVE-2017-10685\n- CVE-2017-11112\n- CVE-2017-11113\n\nlibksba:\n\n- CVE-2016-4574\n- CVE-2016-4579\n\nlibxml2:\n\n- CVE-2014-0191\n- CVE-2015-8806\n- CVE-2016-1762\n- CVE-2016-1833\n- CVE-2016-1834\n- CVE-2016-1835\n- CVE-2016-1837\n- CVE-2016-1838\n- CVE-2016-1839\n- CVE-2016-1840\n- CVE-2016-2073\n- CVE-2016-3627\n- CVE-2016-3705\n- CVE-2016-4447\n- CVE-2016-4448\n- CVE-2016-4449\n- CVE-2016-4483\n- CVE-2016-4658\n- CVE-2016-9318\n- CVE-2016-9597\n- CVE-2017-9047\n- CVE-2017-9048\n- CVE-2017-9049\n- CVE-2017-9050\n\nlibgcrypt:\n\n- CVE-2015-7511\n- CVE-2016-6313\n- CVE-2017-7526\n\nupdate-alternatives:\n\n- CVE-2015-0860\n\nsystemd:\n\n- CVE-2014-9770\n- CVE-2015-8842\n- CVE-2016-7796\n\ndbus-1:\n\n- CVE-2014-7824\n- CVE-2015-0245\n\nFinally, the following packages received non-security fixes:\n\n- augeas\n- bzip2\n- ca-certificates-mozilla\n- coreutils\n- cryptsetup\n- cyrus-sasl\n- dirmngr\n- e2fsprogs\n- findutils\n- gpg2\n- insserv-compat\n- kmod\n- libcap\n- libsolv\n- libzypp\n- lua51\n- lvm2\n- netcfg\n- p11-kit\n- permissions\n- procps\n- rpm\n- sed\n- sg3_utils\n- shadow\n- zypper\n","status":"published","published":"2017-10-10T19:37:36Z","modified":"2026-02-04T03:03:17.897778Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:53:44.209561Z"},{"id":"USN-3625-1","title":"perl vulnerabilities","description":"It was discovered that Perl incorrectly handled certain regular\nexpressions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Perl to\nhang, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu\n14.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-8853)\n\nIt was discovered that Perl incorrectly loaded libraries from the current\nworking directory. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to\nexecute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and\nUbuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-6185)\n\nIt was discovered that Perl incorrectly handled the rmtree and remove_tree\nfunctions. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to set the mode\non arbitrary files. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu\n16.04 LTS. (CVE-2017-6512)\n\nBrian Carpenter discovered that Perl incorrectly handled certain regular\nexpressions. An attacker could use this issue to cause Perl to crash,\nresulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This\nissue has only been addressed in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 17.10.\n(CVE-2018-6797)\n\nNguyen Duc Manh discovered that Perl incorrectly handled certain regular\nexpressions. An attacker could use this issue to cause Perl to crash,\nresulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS\nand Ubuntu 17.10. (CVE-2018-6798)\n\nGwanYeong Kim discovered that Perl incorrectly handled certain data when\nusing the pack function. An attacker could use this issue to cause Perl to\ncrash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary\ncode. (CVE-2018-6913)\n","status":"published","published":"2018-04-16T12:47:44Z","modified":"2026-04-22T09:44:04.737373Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T16:58:13.496563Z"}]}}