USN-4602-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Perl. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. Original advisory details: ManhND discovered that Perl incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. In environments where untrusted regular expressions are evaluated, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Perl to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-10543) Hugo van der Sanden and Slaven Rezic discovered that Perl incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. In environments where untrusted regular expressions are evaluated, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Perl to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-10878) Sergey Aleynikov discovered that Perl incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. In environments where untrusted regular expressions are evaluated, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Perl to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-12723)
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