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Debian: DSA-1556-2 Critical: Perl Heap Buffer Overflow Threat

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Calendar Grey April 27, 2008
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Update Perl libraries to mitigate buffer overflow vulnerabilities within Debian's interpreter framework. Refer to Security Advisory DSA-1556-2 for detailed guidance.
It has been discovered that the Perl interpreter may encounter a buffer overflow condition when compiling certain regular expressions containing Unicode characters
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security advisory buffer overflow critical Debian local threat perl package upgrade

Summary


For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 5.8.8-7etch3.

The unstable distribution (sid) will be fixed soon.

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 4.0 alias etch
Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 1033 a64a02ca01379537d6b203f10b4057b0
Size/MD5 checksum: 12829188 b8c118d4360846829beb30b02a6b91a7
Size/MD5 checksum: 99389 ac6b2e452c2062c5e98148f55220b9f3

Architecture independent packages:

Size/MD5 checksum: 2313550 6150633786b45319e72c73...

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