Package : perl Vulnerability : integer overflow Problem type : local (remote) Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2005-3962 Debian Bug : 341542
Jack Louis discovered an integer overflow in Perl, Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language, that allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary memory and possibly execute arbitrary code via specially crafted content that is passed to vulnerable format strings of third party software.
The old stable distribution (woody) does not seem to be affected by this problem.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 5.8.4-8sarge3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 5.8.7-9.
We recommend that you upgrade your perl packages.
Upgrade Instructions - --------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - --------------------------------