Perl: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Perl, the worst of which could allow a local attacker to cause a Denial of Service condition. perl 2013-11-28 2013-11-28: 1 249629 313565 362025 386357 local, remote 5.12.3-r1 5.12.3-r1

Perl is Larry Wall’s Practical Extraction and Report Language.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Perl. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

A local attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition or perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running the application. A context-dependent attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Perl users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/perl-5.12.3-r1" CVE-2008-5302 CVE-2008-5303 CVE-2010-1158 CVE-2011-0761 CVE-2011-1487 underling craig