full-disclosure - Medium severity flaw with Perl 5

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Message-Id: <201210260827.06472.timb@nth-dimension.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 08:27:05 +0100
From: Tim Brown <timb@...-dimension.org.uk>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Medium severity flaw with Perl 5

I recently discovered that Perl 5 interpreter is vulnerable to memory 
corruption when large values are supplied to the x operator.

After discussions with the vendor, CVE-2012-5195 was assigned to this 
vulnerability.

Tim
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Tim Brown
<mailto:timb@...-dimension.org.uk>
<http://www.nth-dimension.org.uk/>

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