perl security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2008:0522

Perl is a high-level programming language commonly used for system
administration utilities and Web programming.

A flaw was found in Perl’s regular expression engine. A specially crafted
regular expression with Unicode characters could trigger a buffer overflow,
causing Perl to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the user running Perl. (CVE-2008-1927)

Users of perl are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain a backported patch to resolve this issue.

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-June/077137.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-June/077138.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-June/077144.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-June/077146.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-June/077152.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-June/077153.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-June/077178.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-June/077179.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-June/077204.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-June/077205.html

Affected packages:
perl
perl-CGI
perl-CPAN
perl-DB_File
perl-suidperl

Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0522