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      "organization": "Red Hat",
      "comment": "This issue does not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, or 5.\n\nThis flaw can only lead to a denial of service if perl-HTML-Parser is used in conjunction with perl 5.10.1. If perl-HTML-Parser is used with earlier versions of perl, this flaw does not lead to a denial of service.",
      "lastModified": "2009-11-19T00:00:00"
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