Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
Perl is a high-level programming language commonly used for system administration utilities and Web programming.
A flaw was found in Perl's regular expression engine. A specially crafted regular expression with Unicode characters could trigger a buffer overflow, causing Perl to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Perl. (CVE-2008-1927)
Users of perl are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to resolve this issue.
Affected
perl on CentOS 3
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-1927 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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