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From: Tony Cook <tony@develop-help.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: perl-5.22.1-2
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 23:43:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160309234325.GI31807@mars.tony.develop-help.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <announce.8760wve0c0.fsf@Rainer.invalid>

On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 11:46:39PM +0100, Achim Gratz wrote:
> 
> A new release of Perl version 5.22.1 is available, which fixes two cases
> of losing taint.  Immediate update is recommended if either the
> environment or the input to any Perl program can be controlled by an
> untrusted party.

Does this refer to the CVE-2015-8607 and CVE-2016-2381 fixes?

The second is a bit more complex than losing taint.

Tony

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-09 23:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-09 23:00 Achim Gratz
2016-03-09 23:43 ` Tony Cook [this message]
2016-03-10  6:26   ` Achim Gratz

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