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authorFlorian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>2011-09-05 13:43:50 +0200
committerFlorian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>2011-09-05 14:00:57 +0200
commit2fb8701d0595f8b51f4c99fa8a7ad46e47e34b4e (patch)
tree8cc895d3506d7e140f354695ab616db5d7dda191
parent2e8de60ec6c36c8169bd4264125ac5c519ce6920 (diff)
downloadperl-2fb8701d0595f8b51f4c99fa8a7ad46e47e34b4e.tar.gz
Perldelta for the CVE-2011-2939 fix
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diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
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--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -28,6 +28,11 @@ execution attacks. There are no known exploits in the wild. The problem has be
corrected by explicitly disabling all unsupported flags and setting unused function
pointers to null. Bug reported by Clément Lecigne.
+=head2 C<Encode> decode_xs n-byte heap-overflow (CVE-2011-2939)
+
+A bug in C<Encode> could, on certain inputs, cause the heap to overflow.
+This problem has been corrected. Bug reported by Robert Zacek.
+
=head1 Incompatible Changes
There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.14.0. If any
@@ -49,6 +54,12 @@ None
=item *
+L<Encode> has been upgraded from version 2.42 to 2.42_01.
+
+See L</Security>.
+
+=item *
+
L<File::Glob> has been upgraded from version 1.12 to version 1.13.
See L</Security>.