Red Hat Security AdvisoryRHSA-2007:0966
perl security update
Released 2007-11-05 · Red Hat rating Important · View on Red Hat →
Fixed in
- Red Hat Desktop version 3 perl-2:5.8.0-97.EL3, perl-2:5.8.0-97.EL3.i386, perl-CGI-2:2.89-97.EL3 +7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) perl-4:5.8.8-10.el5_0.2, perl-4:5.8.8-10.el5_0.2.i386, perl-4:5.8.8-10.el5_0.2.ia64 +5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 perl-2:5.8.0-97.EL3, perl-2:5.8.0-97.EL3.i386, perl-2:5.8.0-97.EL3.ia64 +17
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 perl-3:5.8.5-36.el4_5.2, perl-3:5.8.5-36.el4_5.2.i386, perl-3:5.8.5-36.el4_5.2.ia64 +5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) perl-4:5.8.8-10.el5_0.2, perl-4:5.8.8-10.el5_0.2.i386, perl-suidperl-4:5.8.8-10.el5_0.2 +1
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 perl-3:5.8.5-36.el4_5.2, perl-3:5.8.5-36.el4_5.2.i386, perl-suidperl-3:5.8.5-36.el4_5.2 +1
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 perl-2:5.8.0-97.EL3, perl-2:5.8.0-97.EL3.i386, perl-2:5.8.0-97.EL3.ia64 +12
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 perl-3:5.8.5-36.el4_5.2, perl-3:5.8.5-36.el4_5.2.i386, perl-3:5.8.5-36.el4_5.2.ia64 +3
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 perl-2:5.8.0-97.EL3, perl-2:5.8.0-97.EL3.i386, perl-2:5.8.0-97.EL3.ia64 +12
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 perl-3:5.8.5-36.el4_5.2, perl-3:5.8.5-36.el4_5.2.i386, perl-3:5.8.5-36.el4_5.2.ia64 +3
Fixes 1 record
Priority MEDIUM 41
Buffer overflow in the polymorphic opcode support in the Regular Expression Engine (regcomp.c) in Perl 5.8 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code by switching from byte to Unicode (UTF) characters i…
CVSS 2.0HIGH 7.5· Network · No auth · Interaction — · EPSS 0.0483 · Published 2007-11-07 · Fixed CWE-119
