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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:51:34 +0200
From: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>
To: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
CC: oss-security <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: CVE-2009-3626 assigment notification - Perl - perl-5.10.1

Hello Steve, vendors,

   Mark Martinec reported Perl crash while processing utf-8 character
with large and invalid codepoint.

References:
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https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6225 (original source)
http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=69973 (perl bug)
http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Attachment/617489/295383/ (PoC)

Affected versions:
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Have checked Perl of versions perl-5.8.0, perl-5.8.5, perl-5.8.8, perl-5.10.0
is not vulnerable to this flaw.

Issue was confirmed in Perl of version perl-5.10.1, as available at:

http://www.cpan.org/src/perl-5.10.1.tar.gz

CVE identifier:
---------------
CVE identifier of CVE-2009-3626 has been already assigned to this issue.

Thanks && Regards, Jan.
--
Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team

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