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Date:      Thu, 27 Jun 1996 00:06:49 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
To:        nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams)
Cc:        taob@io.org, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CERT Advisory CA-96.12 - Vulnerability in suidperl (fwd)
Message-ID:  <199606262206.AAA24375@gvr.win.tue.nl>
In-Reply-To: <199606261914.NAA05459@rocky.mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Jun 26, 96 01:14:32 pm"

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Nate Williams wrote:
> >     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.
> 

We already were no longer vulnerable. Howver, the applied fix won;t hurt.

-Guido



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