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Gentoo GLSA-200908-07 Normal: Compress::Raw Denial of Service Risk

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Calendar Grey August 18, 2009
Scroller Gentoo
A significant Denial of Service flaw found in the Perl Compress::Raw libraries necessitates immediate patching for Gentoo users.
An off-by-one error in Compress::Raw::Zlib and Compress::Raw::Bzip2 might lead to a Denial of Service.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200908-07 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Perl Compress::Raw modules: Denial of Service Date: August 18, 2009 Bugs: #273141, #281955 ID: 200908-07

Synopsis ======= An off-by-one error in Compress::Raw::Zlib and Compress::Raw::Bzip2 might lead to a Denial of Service.
Background ========= Compress::Raw::Zlib and Compress::Raw::Bzip2 are Perl low-level interfaces to the zlib and bzip2 compression libraries.
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