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