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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+
+<glsa id="200805-17">
+  <title>Perl: Execution of arbitrary code</title>
+  <synopsis>
+    A double free vulnerability was discovered in Perl, possibly resulting in
+    the execution of arbitrary code and a Denial of Service.
+  </synopsis>
+  <product type="ebuild">perl libperl</product>
+  <announced>May 20, 2008</announced>
+  <revised>May 20, 2008: 01</revised>
+  <bug>219203</bug>
+  <access>remote</access>
+  <affected>
+    <package name="dev-lang/perl" auto="yes" arch="*">
+      <unaffected range="ge">5.8.8-r5</unaffected>
+      <vulnerable range="lt">5.8.8-r5</vulnerable>
+    </package>
+    <package name="sys-devel/libperl" auto="yes" arch="*">
+      <unaffected range="ge">5.8.8-r2</unaffected>
+      <vulnerable range="lt">5.8.8-r2</vulnerable>
+    </package>
+  </affected>
+  <background>
+    <p>
+    Perl is a stable, cross platform programming language.
+    </p>
+  </background>
+  <description>
+    <p>
+    Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry of the Google Security Team have reported
+    a double free vulnerability when processing a crafted regular
+    expression containing UTF-8 characters.
+    </p>
+  </description>
+  <impact type="normal">
+    <p>
+    A remote attacker could possibly exploit this vulnerability to execute
+    arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service.
+    </p>
+  </impact>
+  <workaround>
+    <p>
+    There is no known workaround at this time.
+    </p>
+  </workaround>
+  <resolution>
+    <p>
+    All Perl users should upgrade to the latest version:
+    </p>
+    <code>
+    # emerge --sync
+    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r5&quot;</code>
+    <p>
+    All libperl users should upgrade to the latest version:
+    </p>
+    <code>
+    # emerge --sync
+    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=sys-devel/libperl-5.8.8-r2&quot;</code>
+  </resolution>
+  <references>
+    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1927">CVE-2008-1927</uri>
+  </references>
+  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sat, 17 May 2008 10:42:17 +0000">
+    p-y
+  </metadata>
+  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sat, 17 May 2008 10:42:31 +0000">
+    p-y
+  </metadata>
+  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sat, 17 May 2008 13:52:28 +0000">
+    keytoaster
+  </metadata>
+</glsa>