Author: matthew
Date: 2011-11-25 13:47:55 -0700 (Fri, 25 Nov 2011)
New Revision: 9668
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml
trunk/BOOK/chapter01/whatsnew.xml
trunk/BOOK/chapter03/patches.xml
trunk/BOOK/chapter06/perl.xml
trunk/BOOK/patches.ent
Log:
Add a security patch for Perl. Fixes #2963.
Modified: trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml 2011-11-25 20:47:25 UTC (rev 9667)
+++ trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml 2011-11-25 20:47:55 UTC (rev 9668)
@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@
<para>2011-11-25</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
+ <para>[matthew] - Add a patch to fix a security vulnerability in
Perl.
+ Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2963">#2963</ulink>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
<para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GDBM-1.10. Fixes
<ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2962">#2962</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/chapter01/whatsnew.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/chapter01/whatsnew.xml 2011-11-25 20:47:25 UTC (rev 9667)
+++ trunk/BOOK/chapter01/whatsnew.xml 2011-11-25 20:47:55 UTC (rev 9668)
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@
<title>Added:</title>
<listitem>
- <para>PLACEHOLDER</para>
+ <para>&perl-security-patch;</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>-->
Modified: trunk/BOOK/chapter03/patches.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/chapter03/patches.xml 2011-11-25 20:47:25 UTC (rev 9667)
+++ trunk/BOOK/chapter03/patches.xml 2011-11-25 20:47:55 UTC (rev 9668)
@@ -147,7 +147,15 @@
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Perl Security Patch -
<token>&perl-security-patch-size;</token>:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Download: <ulink
url="&patches-root;&perl-security-patch;"/></para>
+ <para>MD5 sum: <literal>&perl-security-patch-md5;</literal></para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry>
<term>Procps HZ Errors Patch -
<token>&procps-hz_fixes-patch-size;</token>:</term>
<listitem>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/chapter06/perl.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/chapter06/perl.xml 2011-11-25 20:47:25 UTC (rev 9667)
+++ trunk/BOOK/chapter06/perl.xml 2011-11-25 20:47:55 UTC (rev 9668)
@@ -47,6 +47,10 @@
<screen><userinput remap="pre">echo "127.0.0.1 localhost $(hostname)" >
/etc/hosts</userinput></screen>
+ <para>Apply a patch to fix a security vulnerability in Perl:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i
../&perl-security-patch;</userinput></screen>
+
<para>This version of Perl now builds the Compress::Raw::Zlib module. By
default Perl will use an internal copy of the Zlib source for the build.
Issue the following command so that Perl will use the Zlib library
Modified: trunk/BOOK/patches.ent
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/patches.ent 2011-11-25 20:47:25 UTC (rev 9667)
+++ trunk/BOOK/patches.ent 2011-11-25 20:47:55 UTC (rev 9668)
@@ -80,7 +80,11 @@
<!ENTITY perl-libc-patch-md5 "23682f20b6785e97f99d33be7719c9d6">
<!ENTITY perl-libc-patch-size "1 KB">
+<!ENTITY perl-security-patch "perl-&perl-version;-security_fix-1.patch">
+<!ENTITY perl-security-patch-md5 "7fa3e7e11fecf9d75f65452d700c3dd5">
+<!ENTITY perl-security-patch-size "1 KB">
+
<!ENTITY procps-hz_fixes-patch "procps-&procps-version;-fix_HZ_errors-1.patch">
<!ENTITY procps-hz_fixes-patch-md5 "2ea4c8e9a2c2a5a291ec63c92d7c6e3b">
<!ENTITY procps-hz_fixes-patch-size "2.3 KB">
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