A new update is available for Fedora Core - [SECURITY] Fedora Core 4 Update: perl-5.8.6-18. Here the announcement:
Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-1113
2005-12-01
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Product : Fedora Core 4
Name : perl
Version : 5.8.6
Release : 18
Summary : The Perl programming language.
Description :
Perl is a high-level programming language with roots in C, sed, awk
and shell scripting. Perl is good at handling processes and files,
and is especially good at handling text. Perl's hallmarks are
practicality and efficiency. While it is used to do a lot of
different things, Perl's most common applications are system
administration utilities and web programming. A large proportion of
the CGI scripts on the web are written in Perl. You need the perl
package installed on your system so that your system can handle Perl
scripts.
Install this package if you want to program in Perl or enable your
system to handle Perl scripts.
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Update Information:
Fixed CVE-2005-3962 / CVE-2005-3912:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=full-disclosure&m=113342788118630&w=2
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3912
backported upstream patch #26240
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* Thu Dec 1 2005 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com> - 3:5.8.6-18
- fix bug 174684 / CVE-2005-3962: sprintf integer overflow vulnerability
backported upstream patch #26240
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This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/
aa078272889a851aeaf38ff508f89872 SRPMS/perl-5.8.6-18.src.rpm
7e93837ef07b54f5c7c6e7d8b0b20ceb ppc/perl-5.8.6-18.ppc.rpm
0cfeefee1aa0d3c855d6b30fb4760d85 ppc/perl-suidperl-5.8.6-18.ppc.rpm
86f0ba709fdca4f3e8751e13f7612fdb ppc/debug/perl-debuginfo-5.8.6-18.ppc.rpm
6c984a1b3fd930daf5f2662aec10591f x86_64/perl-5.8.6-18.x86_64.rpm
668ff28c97874e5624f87ee1a54f9e21 x86_64/perl-suidperl-5.8.6-18.x86_64.rpm
fd9bc2eb001abfddbaa0c7880909e065 x86_64/debug/perl-debuginfo-5.8.6-18.x86_64.rpm
896fedda91d64cdd2fcd52590b856eee i386/perl-5.8.6-18.i386.rpm
2e1d33e6d271418977a573e3e511e88b i386/perl-suidperl-5.8.6-18.i386.rpm
f615e50d08621f2986a8994416e1d36e i386/debug/perl-debuginfo-5.8.6-18.i386.rpm
This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.
