Secunia Security Advisory - SUSE has issued an update for perl. This fixes a weakness and a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people bypass certain security features and to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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TITLE:
SUSE update for perl
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA44585
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RELEASE DATE:
2011-05-13
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DESCRIPTION:
SUSE has issued an update for perl. This fixes a weakness and a
vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people bypass
certain security features and to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
For more information:
SA43921
1) An error within the handling of certain regular expressions can be
exploited to cause a crash.
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages via the zypper package manager.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
openSUSE-SU-2011:0479-1:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-05/msg00025.html
SUSE-SU-2011:0486-1:
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8405801
Novell Bug #676086:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676086
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