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perl: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):perl CVE #(s):CVE-2011-3597 CVE-2011-2939
Created:November 3, 2011 Updated:January 18, 2012
Description:

From the Red Hat bugzilla entries [1, 2]:

CVE-2011-3597: A flaw was reported in perl Digest module's "Digest->new()" function, which did not properly sanitize input before using it in an eval() call, which could possibly be exploited to inject and execute arbitrary perl code.

CVE-2011-2939: Perl bundles 'Encode' module that contains 'Unicode.xs' file where a heap overflow bug has been fixed recently.

Alerts:
Oracle ELSA-2011-1797 2011-12-08
Oracle ELSA-2011-1797 2011-12-08
Scientific Linux SL-perl-20111208 2011-12-08
CentOS CESA-2011:1797 2011-12-09
CentOS CESA-2011:1797 2011-12-09
Red Hat RHSA-2011:1797-01 2011-12-08
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2011:1278-1 2011-11-24
Oracle ELSA-2011-1424 2011-11-03
Scientific Linux SL-perl-20111103 2011-11-03
Red Hat RHSA-2011:1424-01 2011-11-03
Fedora FEDORA-2011-13874 2011-10-05
Mandriva MDVSA-2012:008 2012-01-18
Mandriva MDVSA-2012:009 2012-01-18
Ubuntu USN-1643-1 2012-11-29

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