Active Perl Denial of Service Vulnerability (Windows)

Summary
The host is installed with Active Perl and is prone to denial of service vulnerability.
Impact
Successful exploitation will allow attackers to cause denial of service (memory consumption) via specially-crafted hash key. Impact Level: Application
Solution
Upgrade to Active Perl version 5.16.3 or 5.14.4 or later, For updates refer to http://www.perl.org/get.html
Insight
Flaw is due to an error when rehashing user-supplied input.
Affected
Active Perl versions 5.8.2 before 5.14.4 and 5.15 before 5.16.3 on Windows
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