hello there.
I read here that older Perl distros are affected by an hash function vulnerability.
I have to admit that i understood only one third of the explanation.. but fortunately there is a simple oneliner to test your version, and one of mines prints "not ok".

>perl -le"@h{qw(a h k r ad ao as ax ay bs ck cm cz ej fz hm ia ih is i
+z jk kx lg lv lw nj oj pr ql rk sk td tz vy yc yw zj zu aad acp acq a
+dm ajy alu apb apx asa asm atf axi ayl bbq bcs bdp bhs bml)}=(); prin
+t %h=~/128/ && qq(not ),qq(ok # perl $])"

not ok # perl 5.008008

>perl -v

This is perl, v5.8.8 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 25 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

[download]
Where can I find a patch for my distro? How can apply it? I need to recompile from source? or better replace with a 5.18 when it is possible.

L*
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In reply to Patch an old Perl version by Discipulus

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