Perl Safe. pm module Security Restriction Bypass Vulnerability

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Affected Systems:
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
Ubuntu 11.04
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Ubuntu 10.10
Description:
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Cve id: CVE-2010-1168, CVE-2010-1447

Perl is a free and powerful programming language. It is used for Web programming, database processing, XML processing, and system management.

Safe. the pm Perl module processes the Safe: reval and Safe: rdo access restriction errors, resulting in Safe. the pm Perl module has a security vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to bypass certain security restrictions and execute arbitrary code.

<* Source: Marc Deslauriers (marc.deslauriers@canonical.com)

Link: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi? Bug = 618489
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Suggestion:
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Vendor patch:

Ubuntu
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The vendor has released a patch to fix this security problem. Please download it from the vendor's homepage:

Http://www.ubuntulinux.org/