-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2013-0659 2013-01-12 14:04:52 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : perl Product : Fedora 18 Version : 5.16.2 Release : 237.fc18 URL : http://www.perl.org/ Summary : Practical Extraction and Report Language Description : Perl is a high-level programming language with roots in C, sed, awk and shell scripting. Perl is good at handling processes and files, and is especially good at handling text. Perl's hallmarks are practicality and efficiency. While it is used to do a lot of different things, Perl's most common applications are system administration utilities and web programming. A large proportion of the CGI scripts on the web are written in Perl. You need the perl package installed on your system so that your system can handle Perl scripts. Install this package if you want to program in Perl or enable your system to handle Perl scripts. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Fix Locale::Maketext vulnerability allowing to cross-call functions from message catalogs (CVE-2012-6329). App::Cpan(3pm) manual page was included in two subpackages by mistake. This release keeps the file in perl-CPAN package only. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Fri Jan 11 2013 Petr Pisar <[email protected]> - 4:5.16.2-237 - Fix CVE-2012-6329 (misparsing of maketext strings) (bug #884354) * Thu Jan 10 2013 Petr Pisar <[email protected]> - 4:5.16.2-236 - Do not package App::Cpan(3pm) to perl-Test-Harness (bug #893768) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #884354 - CVE-2012-6329 perl: possible arbitrary code execution via Locale::Maketext https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=884354 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update perl' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
