Debian 3.0 DSA 696-1 Critical: Perl Package Privilege Escalation

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 5.8.4-8.

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 3.0 alias woody

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Architecture independent components:

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