Perl security vulnerability

"[A] carefully crafted format string passed to sprintf can cause a
buffer overflow. This buffer overflow can then be used by an attacker to
execute code on the machine."

A patch is available.

More information:
<http://www.perlfoundation.org/news/2005/sprintf_patch_released.html>

Regards,
Tim
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