Synopsis: Important: perl security update Issue date: 2007-11-05 CVE Names: CVE-2007-5116 A flaw was found in Perl's regular expression engine. Specially crafted input to a regular expression can cause Perl to improperly allocate memory, possibly resulting in arbitrary code running with the permissions of the user running Perl. (CVE-2007-5116) SL 3.0.x SRPMS: perl-5.8.0-97.EL3.src.rpm i386: perl-5.8.0-97.EL3.i386.rpm perl-CGI-2.89-97.EL3.i386.rpm perl-CPAN-1.61-97.EL3.i386.rpm perl-DB_File-1.806-97.EL3.i386.rpm perl-suidperl-5.8.0-97.EL3.i386.rpm x86_64: perl-5.8.0-97.EL3.x86_64.rpm perl-CGI-2.89-97.EL3.x86_64.rpm perl-CPAN-1.61-97.EL3.x86_64.rpm perl-DB_File-1.806-97.EL3.x86_64.rpm perl-suidperl-5.8.0-97.EL3.x86_64.rpm SL 4.x SRPMS: perl-5.8.5-36.2.src.rpm i386: perl-5.8.5-36.2.i386.rpm perl-suidperl-5.8.5-36.2.i386.rpm x86_64: perl-5.8.5-36.2.x86_64.rpm perl-suidperl-5.8.5-36.2.x86_64.rpm -Connie Sieh -Troy Dawson