TITLE:
Fedora update for perl

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA17661

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17661/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Fedora Core 4
http://secunia.com/product/5251/

DESCRIPTION:
Fedora has issued an update for perl. This fixes some
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to
perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated
privileges.

For more information:
SA12991

SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages.

Fedora Core 4:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/

d70f372c3402e43304986cf2fdfce7a4 SRPMS/perl-5.8.6-16.fc4.src.rpm
3a63fd96d5378c89138aa848288d8349 ppc/perl-5.8.6-16.fc4.ppc.rpm
0777d7d1f4bd86ec8d46b16e04ea9323
ppc/perl-suidperl-5.8.6-16.fc4.ppc.rpm
968ef29bfd452c37a79761688e8efcc5
ppc/debug/perl-debuginfo-5.8.6-16.fc4.ppc.rpm
1080a28378989dcad02ca51d7f7cdb47 x86_64/perl-5.8.6-16.fc4.x86_64.rpm
2ab3a1b832e06b4ec2aca62ca9d10b61
x86_64/perl-suidperl-5.8.6-16.fc4.x86_64.rpm
52bce66512403007e0a1ee600edc17f7
x86_64/debug/perl-debuginfo-5.8.6-16.fc4.x86_64.rpm
099f53b5e8d58f0c7c18c6eb9fb495f0 i386/perl-5.8.6-16.fc4.i386.rpm
9c45ccf574ddd0bc3367b0b0bf311722
i386/perl-suidperl-5.8.6-16.fc4.i386.rpm
33403773ac61e444a1cb2c977f8a0f9f
i386/debug/perl-debuginfo-5.8.6-16.fc4.i386.rpm

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA12991:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12991/

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