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Debian: DSA-3501-1 Important: Perl Environment Handling Bug

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Calendar Grey March 1, 2016
Scroller Debian
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4503-2 resolves Python execution vulnerability leading to potential exploits.
Stephane Chazelas discovered a bug in the environment handling in Perl
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Summary

With this update Perl changes the behavior to match the following:

a) %ENV is populated with the first environment variable, as getenv
would return.
b) Duplicate environment entries are removed.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed
in version 5.14.2-21+deb7u3.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 5.20.2-3+deb8u4.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed in
version 5.22.1-8.

We recommend that you upgrade your perl packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: perl
CVE ID: CVE-2016-2381

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