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Mageia alert MGASA-2013-0032 (perl-Locale-Maketext)

From:  Mageia Updates <buildsystem-daemon@mageia.org>
To:  updates-announce@ml.mageia.org
Subject:  [updates-announce] MGASA-2013-0032: perl-5.14.2-8.1.mga2, perl-Locale-Maketext-1.220.0-2.mga2 (2/core)
Date:  Wed, 6 Feb 2013 23:13:03 +0100
Message-ID:  <20130206221303.GA16764@valstar.mageia.org>
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MGASA-2013-0032 Date: February 6th, 2013 Affected releases: 2 Media: Core Description: The _compile function in Maketext.pm in the Locale::Maketext implementation in Perl before 5.17.7 does not properly handle backslashes and fully qualified method names during compilation of bracket notation, which allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary commands via crafted input to an application that accepts translation strings from users (CVE-2012-6329). Updated Packages: i586: perl-5.14.2-8.1.mga2.i586.rpm perl-base-5.14.2-8.1.mga2.i586.rpm perl-devel-5.14.2-8.1.mga2.i586.rpm perl-doc-5.14.2-8.1.mga2.noarch.rpm perl-debug-5.14.2-8.1.mga2.i586.rpm perl-Locale-Maketext-1.220.0-2.mga2.noarch.rpm x86_64: perl-5.14.2-8.1.mga2.x86_64.rpm perl-base-5.14.2-8.1.mga2.x86_64.rpm perl-devel-5.14.2-8.1.mga2.x86_64.rpm perl-doc-5.14.2-8.1.mga2.noarch.rpm perl-debug-5.14.2-8.1.mga2.x86_64.rpm perl-Locale-Maketext-1.220.0-2.mga2.noarch.rpm SRPMS: perl-5.14.2-8.1.mga2.src.rpm perl-Locale-Maketext-1.220.0-2.mga2.src.rpm References: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-6329 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce... https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8815 https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2013-...


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