[SECURITY] [DSA 2267-1] perl security update

Debian Security Advisory DSA-2267-1 [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
July 01, 2011 http://www.debian.org/security/faq

Package : perl
Vulnerability : restriction bypass
Problem type : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2010-1447
Debian Bug : 631529

It was discovered that Perl's Safe module - a module to compile and
execute code in restricted compartments - could by bypassed.

Please note that this update is known to break Petal, an XML-based
templating engine (shipped with Debian 6.0/Squeeze in the package
libpetal-perl, see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=582805
for details). A fix is not yet available. If you use Petal, you might
consider to put the previous Perl packages on hold.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 5.10.0-19lenny5.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 5.10.1-17squeeze2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 5.12.3-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your perl packages.

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