Perl Format String Vulnerability

[Pavel Kankovsky]

On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, John Dalbec wrote:

> Does this affect us?
> 
> (1) HIGH: Perl Format String Vulnerability
> Affected:
> Perl versions 5.9.2 and 5.8.6 confirmed; potentially all Perl versions
> Webmin version 1.23 and prior

Perl 5.6.1 in RH 7.3 appears not to be affected (%N$ is not supported).
Newer versions are probably affected.

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