Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200512-01 (Perl)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200512-01. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...

GLSA-200512-01 : Perl: Format string errors can lead to code execution

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200512-01 Perl: Format string errors can lead to code execution Jack Louis discovered a new way to exploit format string errors in Perl that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. This is perfomed by causing an integer wra...