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Date:      Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:46:56 +0400
From:      freebsd@tern.ru
To:        Ryan Steinmetz <zi@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: old perl vulnerabilitiy
Message-ID:  <1019401689.20130318184656@tern.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20130315135454.GA41210@exodus.zi0r.com>
References:  <1472823038.20130315173020@tern.ru> <20130315135454.GA41210@exodus.zi0r.com>

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Thank you. Now it's fixed.


RS> On (03/15/13 17:30), freebsd@tern.ru wrote:
>>Hello Freebsd-security,
>>
>>I've got portaudit alarm on perl-5.8.9_7 with regard to
>>
>>perl -- denial of service via algorithmic complexity attack on hashing routines.
>>Reference: http://portaudit.FreeBSD.org/68c1f75b-8824-11e2-9996-c48508086173.html
>>
>>But on the other server I have perl-threaded-5.8.9_7
>>and portaudit thinks that it is OK (no problem)
>>
>>Is it correct?
>>It seems to me that threaded perl also should have the same problem.
>>

RS> It does have the same issue.  I've corrected the VuXML entry and you
RS> should see updated portaudit results within 30 minutes.  Your 5.8.9
RS> perl-threaded installation should also show up as vulnerable to the same
RS> issue.


RS> Thanks!
RS> -r


>>Please advise.
>>
>>PS.  I  know  that  it  is  old  and "unsupported" but I don't want to
>>  upgrade   without  serious  reason.  And, any way, the "behavior" of
>>  portaudit seems to me not correct.
>>
>>
>>With best regards,
>>Alexandre Krasnov.
>>
>>
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Alexander Krasnov.








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