Gentoo: GLSA-200711-28 Moderate: Perl Buffer Overflow Risk
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November 19, 2007
A buffer overflow in the Regular Expression engine in Perl possibly allows for the execution of arbitrary code.
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200711-28
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: Perl: Buffer overflow
Date: November 19, 2007
Bugs: #198196
ID: 200711-28
Synopsis
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A buffer overflow in the Regular Expression engine in Perl possibly
allows for the execution of arbitrary code.
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Perl is a stable, cross-platform programming language created by Larry
Wall.
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1 dev-lang/perl < 5.8.8-r4 >= 5.8.8-r4
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Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry (Google Security Team) discovered a
heap-based buffer overflow in the Regular Expression eng...Read the Full Advisory
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