Fedora 7 : perl-5.8.8-26.fc7 (2007-3255)

Resolves CVE-2007-5116: perl regular expression UTF parsing errors Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing...

Fedora 8 : perl-5.8.8-31.fc8 (2007-3218)

Resolves: CVE-2007-5116: perl regular expression UTF parsing errors Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing...

perl regular expression UTF parsing errors

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...

Important: perl security update

5.8.5-36.el45.2.0.1 - Added patch perl-5.8.5-OEL-mock-build.patch to disable test lib/Net/t/hostname.t, so that mock build succeeds 5.8.5-36.el4.2 - Resolves: bug323791 - fix previous patch 5.8.5-36.el4.1 - Resolves: bug323791 - fix regular expression UTF parsing errors...