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This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.
Perl is a high-level programming language commonly used for system administration utilities and Web programming.
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)
Users of Perl are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to resolve this issue.
Red Hat would like to thank Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry for properly disclosing this issue.
Max CVSS | 0 |
Min CVSS | 0 |
Total Count | 2 |
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