If a system is serving a perl-based web application that evaluates remote input as a regular expression, an attacker may be be able to exploit these weaknesses to execute arbitrary, attacker-provided code on the system, potentially elevating this to a remote, deterministic unauthorized access vulnerability.

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Foresight Linux Essential Advisory: 2007-0063-1
Published: 2007-11-09

Rating: Minor

Updated Versions:
   perl=/conary.rpath.com@rpl:devel//1/5.8.7-8.2-1
   group-dist=/foresight.rpath.org@fl:1-devel//1/1.4.1-0.2-2

References:
   http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5116

Description:
   Previous versions of the perl package contain weaknesses when evaluating
   regular expressions.

   If a system is serving a perl-based web application that evaluates
   remote input as a regular expression, an attacker may be be able to
   exploit these weaknesses to execute arbitrary, attacker-provided code on
   the system, potentially elevating this to a remote, deterministic
   unauthorized access vulnerability.

   Foresight Linux does not, by default, enable or contain any such services.

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Copyright 2007 Foresight Linux Project
This file is distributed under the terms of the MIT License.
A copy is available at http://www.foresightlinux.org/permanent/mit-license.html
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