Debian: DSA-1556-1 Moderate: Perl Heap Overflow Denial Of Service
debian
April 24, 2008
It has been discovered that the Perl interpreter may encounter a buffer
overflow condition when compiling certain regular expressions containing
Unicode characters
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Summary
The unstable distribution (sid) will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your perl packages.
Upgrade instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
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Architecture independent packages:
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