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Subject:
Security ERRATA for perl on SL3.x, SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64
From:
Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:24:06 -0500
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Synopsis:	Important: perl security update
Issue date:	2008-06-11
CVE Names:	CVE-2008-1927

A flaw was found in Perl's regular expression engine. A specially crafted
regular expression with Unicode characters could trigger a buffer overflow,
causing Perl to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the user running Perl. (CVE-2008-1927)

SL 3.0.x

      SRPMS:
perl-5.8.0-98.EL3.src.rpm
      i386:
perl-5.8.0-98.EL3.i386.rpm
perl-CGI-2.89-98.EL3.i386.rpm
perl-CPAN-1.61-98.EL3.i386.rpm
perl-DB_File-1.806-98.EL3.i386.rpm
perl-suidperl-5.8.0-98.EL3.i386.rpm
      x86_64:
perl-5.8.0-98.EL3.x86_64.rpm
perl-CGI-2.89-98.EL3.x86_64.rpm
perl-CPAN-1.61-98.EL3.x86_64.rpm
perl-DB_File-1.806-98.EL3.x86_64.rpm
perl-suidperl-5.8.0-98.EL3.x86_64.rpm

SL 4.x

      SRPMS:
perl-5.8.5-36.el4_6.3.src.rpm
      i386:
perl-5.8.5-36.el4_6.3.i386.rpm
perl-suidperl-5.8.5-36.el4_6.3.i386.rpm
      x86_64:
perl-5.8.5-36.el4_6.3.x86_64.rpm
perl-suidperl-5.8.5-36.el4_6.3.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

      SRPMS:
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3.src.rpm
      i386:
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3.i386.rpm
perl-suidperl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3.i386.rpm
      x86_64:
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3.i386.rpm
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3.x86_64.rpm
perl-suidperl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson

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