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Gentoo: GLSA-200501-38:03 Normal: Perl Rmtree And DBI Tmpfile Issues

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Calendar Grey March 15, 2005
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Updates for rmtree and DBI temp file problems in Perl released through the Gentoo Security Advisory.
The rmtree race conditions were only partly fixed in the original GLSA

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory [UPDATE] GLSA 200501-38:03 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Perl: rmtree and DBI tmpfile vulnerabilities Date: January 26, 2005 Updated: March 15, 2005 Bugs: #75696, #78634, #79685 ID: 200501-38:03

Update ===== The rmtree race conditions were only partly fixed in the original GLSA. New versions of dev-lang/perl have been released to address the remaining issues (CAN-2005-0448).
The updated sections appear below.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-perl/DBI <= 1.38 *>= 1.37-r1 >= 1.38-r1 2 dev-lang/perl <= 5.8.6-r3 ...

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