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TITLE:
ActivePerl UTF-8 Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA38558

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/38558/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in ActivePerl, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing strings
containing certain UTF-8 characters within regular expressions.

For more information:
SA37144

SOLUTION:
Update to ActivePerl 5.10.1 Build 1007.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

Originally reported in Perl by Mark Martinec.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/activeperl/3815369

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA37144:
http://secunia.com/advisories/37144/

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