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From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
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Subject: Re: CERT Advisory CA-96.12 - Vulnerability in suidperl (fwd)
To: taob@io.org (Brian Tao)
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 00:00:14 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.92.960626143720.8597Q-100000@zap.io.org> from Brian Tao at "Jun 26, 96 02:38:13 pm"
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Brian Tao wrote:
[There is text before PGP section.]
>     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?

We know. This bug was first reported by Paul Traina to CERT.
Of course we're not going to get into details.

-Guido