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HistoryJun 17, 2008 - 12:00 a.m.

(RHSA-2008:0532) Important: perl security update

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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.