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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
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<glsa id="201311-17">
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<title>Perl: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
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<synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Perl, the worst of which
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could allow a local attacker to cause a Denial of Service condition.
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</synopsis>
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<product type="ebuild">perl</product>
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<announced>2013-11-28</announced>
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<revised count="1">2013-11-28</revised>
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<bug>249629</bug>
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<bug>313565</bug>
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<bug>362025</bug>
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<bug>386357</bug>
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<access>local, remote</access>
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<affected>
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<package name="dev-lang/perl" auto="yes" arch="*">
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<unaffected range="ge">5.12.3-r1</unaffected>
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<vulnerable range="lt">5.12.3-r1</vulnerable>
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</package>
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</affected>
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<background>
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<p>Perl is Larry Wall’s Practical Extraction and Report Language.</p>
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</background>
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<description>
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<p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Perl. Please review the
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CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
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</p>
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</description>
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<impact type="high">
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<p>A local attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition or perform
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symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the
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user running the application. A context-dependent attacker could cause a
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Denial of Service condition.
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</p>
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</impact>
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<workaround>
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<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
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</workaround>
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<resolution>
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<p>All Perl users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
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<code>
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# emerge --sync
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/perl-5.12.3-r1"
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</code>
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</resolution>
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<references>
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<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-5302">CVE-2008-5302</uri>
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<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-5303">CVE-2008-5303</uri>
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<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-1158">CVE-2010-1158</uri>
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<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-0761">CVE-2011-0761</uri>
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<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1487">CVE-2011-1487</uri>
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</references>
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<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2011-10-07T23:37:30Z">
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underling
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</metadata>
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<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2013-11-28T08:18:07Z">craig</metadata>
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</glsa>
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