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perl: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):Perl CVE #(s):CVE-2007-5116
Created:November 6, 2007 Updated:December 5, 2007
Description: A flaw was found in Perl's regular expression engine. Specially crafted input to a regular expression can cause Perl to improperly allocate memory, possibly resulting in arbitrary code running with the permissions of the user running Perl. (CVE-2007-5116)
Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-552-1 2007-12-04
Fedora FEDORA-2007-748 2007-12-03
SuSE SUSE-SR:2007:024 2007-11-22
Gentoo 200711-28 2007-11-19
Fedora FEDORA-2007-3255 2007-11-13
Fedora FEDORA-2007-3218 2007-11-13
Foresight FLEA-2007-0069-1 2007-11-11
Foresight FLEA-2007-0063-1 2007-11-09
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2007.023 2007-11-08
Debian DSA-1400-1 2007-11-06
rPath rPSA-2007-0232-1 2007-11-06
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:207 2007-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0966-01 2007-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2007:1011-01 2007-11-05
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