Summary
Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-552-1
Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
It was discovered that Perl's regular expression library did not correctly handle certain UTF sequences. If a user or automated system were tricked into running a specially crafted regular expression, a remote attacker could crash the application or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges.
Affected
perl vulnerability on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS ,
Ubuntu 6.10 ,
Ubuntu 7.04 ,
Ubuntu 7.10
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
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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