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[USN-552-1] Perl vulnerability

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-552-1          December 04, 2007
perl vulnerability
CVE-2007-5116
Kwetsbare Ubuntu versies:

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
Ubuntu 6.10
Ubuntu 7.04
Ubuntu 7.10

Kwetsbare pakketten:

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
libperl5.8 5.8.7-10ubuntu1.1
Ubuntu 6.10
libperl5.8 5.8.8-6ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu 7.10
libperl5.8 5.8.8-7ubuntu3.1
Ubuntu 7.04
libperl5.8 5.8.8-7ubuntu0.1

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.

It was discovered that Perl's regular expression library did not correctly handle certain UTF sequences. If a user or automated system were tricked into running a specially crafted regular expression, a remote attacker could crash the application or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges.

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