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Ubuntu 6.06-7.10 USN-552-1 Critical: Perl Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey December 4, 2007
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Debian Security Advisory DSA-4778-1 highlights a severe Python vulnerability permitting unauthorized remote code execution through specifically designed input sequences.
It was discovered that Perl's regular expression library did not correctly handle certain UTF sequences

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-552-1 December 04, 2007

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