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Subject: Re: CERT Advisory CA-96.12 - Vulnerability in suidperl (fwd)
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>     I believe this applies to perl4 as shipped with all versions of
> FreeBSD, as well as the perl5 packages/ports.  Does anyone know what
> the actual vulnerability is?

I don't, but thanks for bringing this up.  I was planning on bringing
this in but I forgot.  I just applied the suggested change to the
version of perl in -stable and -current, so it'll be in 2.1.5.




Nate