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.
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0458.html

Other references
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Deep Links
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