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Debian DSA-2641-2: Update for libapache2-mod-perl2 to Mitigate DoS Risk

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Calendar Grey March 20, 2013
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Important patch for Debian's libapache2-mod-perl2 tackles denial of service vulnerability arising from an issue in Perl's rehashing mechanism.
The security fix applied to the perl package due to CVE-2013-1667 introduced a test failure in libapache2-mod-perl2 source package specific to the rehash mechanism in Perl

Summary

The security fix applied to the perl package due to CVE-2013-1667
introduced a test failure in libapache2-mod-perl2 source package
specific to the rehash mechanism in Perl. See Debian Bug #702821 for
details. This update fixes that problem. For reference, the original
advisory text for perl follows.

Yves Orton discovered a flaw in the rehashing code of Perl. This flaw
could be exploited to carry out a denial of service attack against code
that uses arbitrary user input as hash keys. Specifically an attacker
could create a set of keys of a hash causing a denial of service via
memory exhaustion.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.0.4-7+squeeze1.

For the testing distribution (wheezy) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.0.7-3.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.0.7-3.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: htt...

Read the Full Advisory

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Package: libapache2-mod-perl2

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