Debian 3.1 DSA 943-1 High: Perl Integer Overflow Code Execution
debian
January 27, 2006
Jack Louis discovered an integer overflow in Perl, Larry Wall's
Practical Extraction and Report Language, that allows attackers to
overwrite arbitrary memory and possibly execute...
Summary
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 5.8.4-8sarge3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 5.8.7-9.
We recommend that you upgrade your perl packages.
Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge
Size/MD5 checksum: 738 88756767017d421351e02a5226457d2b
Size/MD5 checksum: 87851 05a72533cd5bde5fce6987cf39041236
Size/MD5 checksum: 12094233 912050a9cb6b0f415b76ba56052fb4cf
Architecture independent components:
Size/MD5 che...
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