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MGASA-2012-0352
| Date: | December 7th, 2012 |
| Affected releases: | 2 |
Description:
Updated perl packages fix security vulnerability:
It was discovered that Perl's 'x' string repeat operator is vulnerable
to a heap-based buffer overflow. An attacker could use this to execute
arbitrary code (CVE-2012-5195).
Updated Packages:
perl-5.14.2-8.mga2
perl-base-5.14.2-8.mga2
perl-devel-5.14.2-8.mga2
perl-doc-5.14.2-8.mga2
References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5195
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1643-1/
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8253
