Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry discovered a flaw in Perl's regular expression engine. Specially crafted input to a regular expression can cause Perl to improperly allocate memory, resulting in the possible execution of arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running Perl.
Updated packages have been patched to prevent these issues.
Affected
perl on Mandriva Linux 2007.0,
Mandriva Linux 2007.0/X86_64,
Mandriva Linux 2007.1,
Mandriva Linux 2007.1/X86_64,
Mandriva Linux 2008.0,
Mandriva Linux 2008.0/X86_64
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2007-5116 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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