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