An interaction between the Perl MD5 module (perl-Digest-MD5) and Perl could produce incorrect MD5 checksums for UTF-8 data, which could prevent a system from properly verifying the integrity of the data.
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4716
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-035.php