diff --git a/perl-5.8.8-bz323571.patch b/perl-5.8.8-bz323571.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b41e91b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/perl-5.8.8-bz323571.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+--- perl-5.8.8.orig/regcomp.c	2006-01-08 20:59:27.000000000 +0000
++++ perl-5.8.8/regcomp.c	2007-10-19 22:49:41.000000000 +0100
+@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@
+     I32		seen_zerolen;
+     I32		seen_evals;
+     I32		utf8;
++    I32		orig_utf8;
+ #if ADD_TO_REGEXEC
+     char 	*starttry;		/* -Dr: where regtry was called. */
+ #define RExC_starttry	(pRExC_state->starttry)
+@@ -161,6 +162,7 @@
+ #define RExC_seen_zerolen	(pRExC_state->seen_zerolen)
+ #define RExC_seen_evals	(pRExC_state->seen_evals)
+ #define RExC_utf8	(pRExC_state->utf8)
++#define RExC_orig_utf8 (pRExC_state->orig_utf8)
+ 
+ #define	ISMULT1(c)	((c) == '*' || (c) == '+' || (c) == '?')
+ #define	ISMULT2(s)	((*s) == '*' || (*s) == '+' || (*s) == '?' || \
+@@ -1749,15 +1751,17 @@
+     if (exp == NULL)
+ 	FAIL("NULL regexp argument");
+ 
+-    RExC_utf8 = pm->op_pmdynflags & PMdf_CMP_UTF8;
++    RExC_orig_utf8 = RExC_utf8 = pm->op_pmdynflags & PMdf_CMP_UTF8;
+ 
+-    RExC_precomp = exp;
+     DEBUG_r({
+ 	 if (!PL_colorset) reginitcolors();
+ 	 PerlIO_printf(Perl_debug_log, "%sCompiling REx%s `%s%*s%s'\n",
+ 		       PL_colors[4],PL_colors[5],PL_colors[0],
+-		       (int)(xend - exp), RExC_precomp, PL_colors[1]);
++		       (int)(xend - exp), exp, PL_colors[1]);
+     });
++
++redo_first_pass:
++    RExC_precomp = exp;
+     RExC_flags = pm->op_pmflags;
+     RExC_sawback = 0;
+ 
+@@ -1783,6 +1787,17 @@
+ 	RExC_precomp = Nullch;
+ 	return(NULL);
+     }
++    if (RExC_utf8 && !RExC_orig_utf8) {
++    	STRLEN len = xend-exp;
++    	DEBUG_r(PerlIO_printf(Perl_debug_log,
++	   "UTF8 mismatch! Converting to utf8 for resizing and compile\n"));
++	exp = (char*)Perl_bytes_to_utf8(aTHX_ (U8*)exp, &len);
++	xend = exp + len;
++	RExC_orig_utf8 = RExC_utf8;
++	SAVEFREEPV(exp);
++	goto redo_first_pass;
++    }
++
+     DEBUG_r(PerlIO_printf(Perl_debug_log, "size %"IVdf" ", (IV)RExC_size));
+ 
+     /* Small enough for pointer-storage convention?
diff --git a/perl.spec b/perl.spec
index 81717ef..7a165a4 100644
--- a/perl.spec
+++ b/perl.spec
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
 Name:           perl
 Version:        %{perl_version}
-Release:        30%{?dist}
+Release:        31%{?dist}
 Epoch:          %{perl_epoch}
 Summary:        The Perl programming language
 Group:          Development/Languages
@@ -127,6 +127,9 @@ Patch41:        perl-5.8.8-bz247386-file-spec-cwd.patch
 Patch42:        perl-5.8.8-DB_File-1.815.patch
 # Fix from perl bug #24254
 Patch43:	perl-5.8.8-bug24254.patch
+# Fix Bugzilla 378121 378131 378141 378151 (all the same bug, just one for each Fedora 
+# release), CVE-2007-5116
+Patch44:	perl-5.8.8-bz323571.patch
 
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{perl_version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
 BuildRequires:  tcsh, dos2unix, man, groff
@@ -390,6 +393,7 @@ upstream tarball from perl.org.
 %patch41 -p1
 %patch42 -p1
 %patch43 -p1
+%patch44 -p1
 #
 # Candidates for doc recoding (need case by case review):
 # find . -name "*.pod" -o -name "README*" -o -name "*.pm" | xargs file -i | grep charset= | grep -v '\(us-ascii\|utf-8\)'
@@ -789,6 +793,9 @@ make test
 # Nothing. Nada. Zilch. Zarro. Uh uh. Nope. Sorry.
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Nov 12 2007 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> - 4:5.8.8-31
+- fix for CVE-2007-5116
+
 * Thu Oct 18 2007 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> - 4:5.8.8-30
 - patch from perl bug 24254, fix for RH bz 114271