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Red Hat update perl
Secunia Advisory: SA18075
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Release Date: 2005-12-21
Last Update: 2005-12-22
Popularity: 7,845 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 3
RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 3
RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 3
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CVE reference:CVE-2004-0976
CVE-2005-0448
CVE-2005-3962
Description:
Red Hat has issued an update for perl. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a Denial of Service and potentially to compromise a vulnerable Perl application, or by malicious, local users to perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges.

For more information:
SA17802
SA12991
SA14531

Solution:
Updated packages are available from Red Hat Network.
http://rhn.redhat.com/

Changelog:
2005-12-22: Updated "Critical" and "Description" sections.

Original Advisory:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-881.html

Other References:
SA17802:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17802/

SA12991:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12991/

SA14531:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14531/

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