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UTF8 interaction bug in the perl-Digest-MD5 module

Package(s):

perl-Digest-MD5

CVE #(s):

Created:

June 5, 2002

Updated:

June 5, 2002

Description:

Versions prior to 2.20 of the perl-Digest-MD5 module have a bug in the UTF8 interaction with perl that produces UTF8 strings with improper MD5 digests. (First LWN report: May 16).

Alerts:

Red Hat	RHSA-2002:081-06	2002-05-10
Mandrake	MDKSA-2002:035	2002-05-28

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