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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1400-1 (perl)

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.5

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

16 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to perl announced via advisory DSA 1400-1.

Insight

Insight

Will Drewry and Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team have discovered a UTF-8 related heap overflow in Perl's regular expression compiler, probably allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code by compiling specially crafted regular expressions. For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 5.8.8-7etch1. For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 5.8.4-8sarge6. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon. Some architectures are missing from this DSA these updates will be released once they are available. We recommend that you upgrade your perl package.

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201400-1

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