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Date:      Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:46:39 +0000
From:      Tom Hukins <tom@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, rihad <rihad@mail.ru>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Using Perl 5.8.8
Message-ID:  <20100122154639.GA756@eborcom.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100122115408.GY756@eborcom.com>
References:  <4B587EBE.8040403@mail.ru> <4B588EED.6080602@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20100122115408.GY756@eborcom.com>

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On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:54:08AM +0000, Tom Hukins wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 05:29:17PM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> > portdowngrade is what you'ld have to use.  However, perl-5.8.8 has known
> > security vulnerabilities:
> > 
> >    http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/4a99d61c-f23a-11dd-9f55-0030843d3802.html
> 
> It looks like VuXML might have got that wrong.  The referenced CVE
> describes Perl 5.8.4 as fixing this bug:
> http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0448

It looks like I didn't read carefully enough:  the vulnerability in
rmtree() also exists in 5.8.8:
http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/13b0c8c8-bee0-11dd-a708-001fc66e7203.html

Apologies,
Tom



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