Just received a security advisory for Perl. Any word on an ActiveState vulnerability?
>- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Debian Security Advisory DSA 943-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze >January 16th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq >- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Package : perl >Vulnerability : integer overflow >Problem type : local (remote) >Debian-specific: no >CVE ID : CVE-2005-3962 >Debian Bug : 341542 > >Jack Louis discovered an integer overflow in Perl, Larry Wall's >Practical Extraction and Report Language, that allows attackers to >overwrite arbitrary memory and possibly execute arbitrary code via >specially crafted content that is passed to vulnerable format strings >of third party software. -- REMEMBER THE WORLD TRADE CENTER ---=< WTC 911 >=-- "...ne cede malis" 00000100 _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
