Bug#622817: perl: CVE-2011-1487: taint laundering in lc, uc

Florian Weimer fw at deneb.enyo.de
Tue Apr 19 14:18:36 UTC 2011


* Niko Tyni:

> Security team, I assume this is going to be fixed through a DSA?

I don't think this is a security bug on its own.

> It should be trivial to port this to squeeze and lenny. I'll try to
> prepare the debdiffs on Sunday, but if somebody else wants to do that,
> feel free.

If this bug fixes any actual vulnerabilities, such a backport will
break applications, hard.  Therefore, I would prefer to let it soak in
unstable/testing for some time, to see what happens.






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