RHSA-2021:2792: Red Hat Security Advisory: perl security and bug fix update

An update for perl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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: heap-based buffer overflow in regular expression compiler leads to DoS (CVE-2020-10543)
• perl: corruption of intermediate language state of compiled regular expression due to integer overflow leads to DoS (CVE-2020-10878) 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. Bug Fix(es):
• [perl-net-ping] wrong return value on failing DNS name lookup (BZ#1973177) Related CVEs:
• CVE-2020-10543: perl: heap-based buffer overflow in regular expression compiler leads to DoS
• CVE-2020-10878: perl: corruption of intermediate language state of compiled regular expression due to integer overflow leads to DoS