Security advisory: perl (CVE-2005-3962)

Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net
Fri Dec 9 19:52:00 GMT 2005


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Gerrit,

Perl is vulnerable to format string programming errors, that could be
exploited to execute arbitrary code.

Patch:
http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/dev-lang/perl/files/perl-exp_intwrap.patch

More information:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200512-01.xml
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114113
http://www.dyadsecurity.com/perl-0002.html


Yaakov
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