Secunia Security Advisory - Some vulnerabilities have been reported in ActivePerl, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or to potentially compromise an application using the affected modules.
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TITLE:
ActivePerl Compress Modules Off-by-One Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA37534
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/37534/
DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in ActivePerl, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or
to potentially compromise an application using the affected modules.
The vulnerabilities are caused due to off-by-one errors within the
"Compress::Raw::Zlib" and "Compress::Raw::Bzip2" modules.
For more information:
SA35422
SA36386
SOLUTION:
Update to ActivePerl 5.10.1 build 1006.
http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/ActivePerl/3745416
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA35422:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35422/
SA36386:
http://secunia.com/advisories/36386/
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