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TITLE:
IBM AIX Perl Regular Expressions Unicode Data Buffer Overflow

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA28167

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28167/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
AIX 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/213/
AIX 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/16995/

DESCRIPTION:
IBM has acknowledged a vulnerability in AIX, which potentially can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

For more information:
SA27546

The vulnerability affects AIX 5.2, 5.3, and 6.1.

SOLUTION:
Apply interim fix.
ftp://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/perl_ifix.tar

Apply APARs as soon as they become available.

AIX 5.2:
APAR IZ10220 (available approximately 05/14/2008)

AIX 5.3 through TL06:
APAR IZ10244 (available approximately 02/06/2008)

AIX 5.3 TL07:
APAR IZ10244 (available approximately 02/06/2008)

AIX 6.1:
APAR IZ10244 (available approximately 02/20/2008)

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
IBM:
ftp://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/README

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA27546:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27546/

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