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ELSA-2008-0522 Important: Enterprise Linux perl security update

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ELSA-2008-0522 Important: Enterprise Linux perl security update

Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Published

04/24/2008

Created

07/25/2018

Added

12/20/2011

Modified

04/11/2019

Description

Double free vulnerability in Perl 5.8.8 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via a crafted regular expression containing UTF8 characters. NOTE: this issue might only be present on certain operating systems.

Solution(s)

oracle-linux-upgrade-perl
oracle-linux-upgrade-perl-cgi
oracle-linux-upgrade-perl-cpan
oracle-linux-upgrade-perl-db_file
oracle-linux-upgrade-perl-suidperl

References

https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2008-1927
APPLE-SA-2009-02-12
28928
CVE - 2008-1927
DSA-1556
OVAL10579
RHSA-2008:0522
RHSA-2008:0532
http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2008-June/000641.html
http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2008-June/000643.html
http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2008-June/000646.html
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