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TITLE:
Red Hat update for perl

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA40052

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RELEASE DATE:
2010-06-09

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DESCRIPTION:
Red Hat has issued an update for perl. This fixes some
vulnerabilities and security issues, which can be exploited by
malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges and by malicious
people to bypass certain security restrictions.

1) Some vulnerabilities are caused due to the reintroduction of
CVE-2004-0452 and CVE-2005-0448.

For more information:
SA13643
SA14531

2) Two security issues can be exploited by malicious people to bypass
certain security restrictions.

For more information:
SA40049

SOLUTION:
Updated packages are available via Red Hat Network.

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ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0458.html

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