RHSA-2008:0532High

Red Hat Security Advisory: perl security update

Published
June 17, 2008
Last Modified
November 21, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2008-1927 →

📋 Description

CVE-2008-1927 — perl: heap corruption by regular expressions with utf8 characters

🎯 Affected products16

  • Red Hat Application Stack v1 for Enterprise Linux AS (v.4)
  • Red Hat Application Stack v1 for Enterprise Linux ES (v.4)
  • perl-4:5.8.8-6.el4s1_3.i386 as a component of Red Hat Application Stack v1 for Enterprise Linux AS (v.4)
  • perl-4:5.8.8-6.el4s1_3.i386 as a component of Red Hat Application Stack v1 for Enterprise Linux ES (v.4)
  • perl-4:5.8.8-6.el4s1_3.src as a component of Red Hat Application Stack v1 for Enterprise Linux AS (v.4)
  • perl-4:5.8.8-6.el4s1_3.src as a component of Red Hat Application Stack v1 for Enterprise Linux ES (v.4)
  • perl-4:5.8.8-6.el4s1_3.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Application Stack v1 for Enterprise Linux AS (v.4)
  • perl-4:5.8.8-6.el4s1_3.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Application Stack v1 for Enterprise Linux ES (v.4)
  • perl-debuginfo-4:5.8.8-6.el4s1_3.i386 as a component of Red Hat Application Stack v1 for Enterprise Linux AS (v.4)
  • perl-debuginfo-4:5.8.8-6.el4s1_3.i386 as a component of Red Hat Application Stack v1 for Enterprise Linux ES (v.4)
  • perl-debuginfo-4:5.8.8-6.el4s1_3.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Application Stack v1 for Enterprise Linux AS (v.4)
  • perl-debuginfo-4:5.8.8-6.el4s1_3.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Application Stack v1 for Enterprise Linux ES (v.4)
  • perl-suidperl-4:5.8.8-6.el4s1_3.i386 as a component of Red Hat Application Stack v1 for Enterprise Linux AS (v.4)
  • perl-suidperl-4:5.8.8-6.el4s1_3.i386 as a component of Red Hat Application Stack v1 for Enterprise Linux ES (v.4)
  • perl-suidperl-4:5.8.8-6.el4s1_3.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Application Stack v1 for Enterprise Linux AS (v.4)
  • perl-suidperl-4:5.8.8-6.el4s1_3.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Application Stack v1 for Enterprise Linux ES (v.4)

✅ Remediation

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

🔗 References (4)