A type of security flaw in Perl applications that experts thought could lead only to a denial-of-service attack is now believed to be much more serious. Dyad Security on Tuesday warned of a so-called ...

The Perl Foundation has toned down a warning on a type of vulnerability commonly found in applications written in the Perl programming language. Two weeks after experts sounded an alarm on so-called ...

Denial-of-service, buffer overflow and format string vulnerabilities in Debian GNU/Linux that an attacker could use to remotely execute malicious code or crash machines has been fixed. Flaws and fixes ...