[Bug 1492093] New: CVE-2017-12883 perl: Buffer over-read in regular expression parser

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1492093

            Bug ID: 1492093
           Summary: CVE-2017-12883 perl: Buffer over-read in regular
                    expression parser
           Product: Security Response
         Component: vulnerability
          Keywords: Security
          Severity: medium
          Priority: medium
          Assignee: security-response-team@xxxxxxxxxx
          Reporter: amaris@xxxxxxxxxx
                CC: alexl@xxxxxxxxxx, caillon+fedoraproject@xxxxxxxxx,
                    caolanm@xxxxxxxxxx, hhorak@xxxxxxxxxx,
                    iarnell@xxxxxxxxx, jorton@xxxxxxxxxx,
                    jplesnik@xxxxxxxxxx, kasal@xxxxxx,
                    mbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxx,
                    perl-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
                    perl-maint-list@xxxxxxxxxx, ppisar@xxxxxxxxxx,
                    psabata@xxxxxxxxxx, rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx,
                    rhughes@xxxxxxxxxx, sandmann@xxxxxxxxxx,
                    tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx



For certain types of syntax error in a regular expression pattern, the error
message could either contain the contents of a random, possibly large, chunk of
memory, or could crash perl.

Upstream patch:

https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/2be4edede4ae226e2eebd4eff28cedd2041f300f

Bug report (not public atm):

https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=131598

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