Medium severity flaw with Perl 5

[Tim Brown <timb () nth-dimension org uk>]

I recently discovered that Perl 5 interpreter is vulnerable to memory 
corruption when large values are supplied to the x operator.

After discussions with the vendor, CVE-2012-5195 was assigned to this 
vulnerability.

Tim
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Tim Brown
<mailto:timb () nth-dimension org uk>
<http://www.nth-dimension.org.uk/>

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