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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 5.x
SRPMS:
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2.src.rpm
i386:
perl-5.8.8-10.el5.2.i386.rpm
perl-suidperl-5.8.8-10.el5.2.i386.rpm
x86_64:
perl-5.8.8-10.el5.2.i386.rpm
perl-5.8.8-10.el5.2.x86_64.rpm
perl-suidperl-5.8.8-10.el5.2.x86_64.rpm
-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson