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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201311-17">
<title>Perl: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
<synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Perl, the worst of which
could allow a local attacker to cause a Denial of Service condition.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">perl</product>
<announced>November 28, 2013</announced>
<revised>November 28, 2013: 1</revised>
<bug>249629</bug>
<bug>313565</bug>
<bug>362025</bug>
<bug>386357</bug>
<access>local, remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="dev-lang/perl" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">5.12.3-r1</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">5.12.3-r1</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>Perl is Larry Walls Practical Extraction and Report Language.</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Perl. Please review the
CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="high">
<p>A local attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition or perform
symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the
user running the application. A context-dependent attacker could cause a
Denial of Service condition.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All Perl users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-lang/perl-5.12.3-r1"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-5302">CVE-2008-5302</uri>
<uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-5303">CVE-2008-5303</uri>
<uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-1158">CVE-2010-1158</uri>
<uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-0761">CVE-2011-0761</uri>
<uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1487">CVE-2011-1487</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:37:30 +0000">
underling
</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Thu, 28 Nov 2013 08:18:07 +0000">craig</metadata>
</glsa>