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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 10:43:25 +1100
From: Tony Cook <tony AT develop-help DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: perl-5.22.1-2
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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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