openSUSE 10 Security Update : perl (perl-4675)

This update fixes a buffer overflow in perl's regex engine. CVE-2007-5116 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE Security Update perl-4675. The text description of this plugin is C SUSE LLC...

CVE-2007-5116

Buffer overflow in the polymorphic opcode support in the Regular Expression Engine regcomp.c in Perl 5.8 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code by switching from byte to Unicode UTF characters in a regular expression...