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Package name perl-Net-Server
Date July 25th, 2006
Advisory ID MDKSA-2006:131
Affected versions CS3.0

Problem Description

Peter Bieringer discovered a flaw in the perl Net::Server module where
the "log" function was not safe against format string exploits in
version 0.87 and earlier.

Updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

Updated Packages

Corporate Server 3.0

 33e4382b4ad9bf5a1894298a468895e8  corporate/3.0/RPMS/perl-Net-Server-0.85-3.1.C30mdk.noarch.rpm
 9294cea422b1a149b5a13ad4f8824780  corporate/3.0/SRPMS/perl-Net-Server-0.85-3.1.C30mdk.src.rpm

Corporate Server 3.0/X86_64

 891bb910d688342cf8a9fde373694b70  x86_64/corporate/3.0/RPMS/perl-Net-Server-0.85-3.1.C30mdk.noarch.rpm
 9294cea422b1a149b5a13ad4f8824780  x86_64/corporate/3.0/SRPMS/perl-Net-Server-0.85-3.1.C30mdk.src.rpm

References

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-1127

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Verification

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		rpm --checksig package.rpm
		

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