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Package "perl"

Name: perl

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Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language
Latest version: 5.38.2-3.2ubuntu0.1
Release: noble (24.04)
Level: security
Repository: main
Homepage: http://dev.perl.org/perl5/

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Version: 5.38.2-3.2ubuntu0.1 2025-04-14 14:07:24 UTC

  perl (5.38.2-3.2ubuntu0.1) noble-security; urgency=medium

  * SECURITY UPDATE: heap overflow when transliterating non-ASCII bytes
    - debian/patches/CVE-2024-56406.patch: properly calculate needed space
      in op.c.
    - CVE-2024-56406

 -- Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden> Tue, 08 Apr 2025 08:47:54 -0400
CVE-2024-56406 A heap buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in Perl. Release branches 5.34, 5.36, 5.38 and 5.40 are affected, including development version


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