[perl #117077] RE: Vulnerability in XML::Simple

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Acknowledged.  This relates to an active issue being discussed on the
oss-security mailing list regarding XML entity resolution.  I will file
a bug but we need to move fast.

Tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grant McLean [mailto:grant@mclean.net.nz] 
> Sent: 06 March 2013 19:48
> To: advisories
> Cc: grantm@cpan.org; security@perl.org
> Subject: Re: Vulnerability in XML::Simple
> 
> Hi Tim
> 
> On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 19:33 +0000, Tim Brown wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We have a security advisory that affects the XML::Simple module 
> > distributed on CPAN.  It is likely that other Perl XML modules are 
> > also affected.  How would you like to proceed?
> 
> If you've found a problem, then I'd recommend you report it 
> via the RT bug queue:
> 
>   https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Report.html?Queue=XML-Simple
> 
> Regards
> Grant
> 
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