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Today's Topics:

1. [USN-2099-1] Perl vulnerability (Marc Deslauriers)


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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 14:01:29 -0500
From: Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@canonical.com>
To: ubuntu-security-announce@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: [USN-2099-1] Perl vulnerability
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2099-1
February 05, 2014

perl vulnerability
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 12.10
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Summary:

Perl could be made to run programs if it processed a specially crafted
Locale::Maketext templates.

Software Description:
- perl: Practical Extraction and Report Language

Details:

It was discovered that Perl's Locale::Maketext module incorrectly handled
backslashes and fully qualified method names. An attacker could possibly
use this flaw to execute arbitrary code when an application used untrusted
templates.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 12.10:
perl-modules 5.14.2-13ubuntu0.3

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
perl-modules 5.14.2-6ubuntu2.4

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
perl-modules 5.10.1-8ubuntu2.4

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2099-1
CVE-2012-6329

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/perl/5.14.2-13ubuntu0.3
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/perl/5.14.2-6ubuntu2.4
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/perl/5.10.1-8ubuntu2.4


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