-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200212-6 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- PACKAGE : perl SUMMARY : broken safe compartment DATE : 2002-12-20 14:12 UTC EXPLOIT : local - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote from http://use.perl.org/articles/02/10/06/1118222.shtml?tid=5 "A security hole has been discovered in Safe.pm. When a Safe compartment has already been used, there's no guarantee that it's safe any longer, because there's a way for code executed within the Safe compartment to alter its operation mask. (Thus, programs that use a Safe compartment only once aren't affected by this bug" Mor information is available at http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=rt-17744-39131.3.96370682846239%40bugs6.perl.org SOLUTION It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running sys-devel/perl-5.6.1-r9 or sys-devel/5.8.0-r5 and earlier update their systems as follows: emerge rsync emerge perl emerge clean ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION If you don't want to or can't upgrade your perl package right away, you can emerge dev-perl/Safe to accomplish the same solution as above. - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- aliz@gentoo.org - GnuPG key is available at www.gentoo.org/~aliz mcummings@gentoo.org - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Ay13fT7nyhUpoZMRAnnkAJ9rZaVQgc8/6JBljqKRq2uO9wj1eACggdJc vvE5MXez0xeSi4EC30BYnSM= =WQ3V -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
