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Name : perl Product : Fedora 8 Version : 5.8.8 Release : 39.fc8 URL : http://www.perl.org/ Summary : The Perl programming 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.

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* Tue Apr 29 2008 Marcela Maslanova mmaslano@redhat.com - 4:5.8.8-39 - perl-5.8.8-CVE-2008-1927.patch - buffer overflow, when using unicode characters in regexp * Wed Mar 19 2008 Marcela Maslanova mmaslano@redhat.com - 4:5.8.8-38 - 434865 upgrade Test::Simple - turn off test on loading Dummy in More.t, can't find module (path problem?) - 238581: careless use of gethostbyname() in Socket.xs * Thu Mar 13 2008 Marcela Maslanova mmaslano@redhat.com - 4:5.8.8-37 - update CGI, because of broken upload method #431774 * Fri Feb 29 2008 Marcela Maslanova mmaslano@redhat.com - 4:5.8.8-36 - remove conflicts perl-File-Temp. Use obsoletes. * Fri Feb 29 2008 Marcela Maslanova mmaslano@redhat.com - 4:5.8.8-35 - upgrade Scalar::Util - possible fix for many bugs. Packages dependent on this module could work even with use of CPAN modules. - - Fri Feb 22 2008 Stepan Kasal skasal@redhat.com - make the obsoletes versioned - add conflict with any version of perl-File-Temp - escape the macros in Jan 31 entry * Mon Feb 18 2008 Bill McGonigle bill@bfccomputing.com - 4:5.8.8-34 - add perl-File-Temp provides/obsolete - Resolves: rhbz#433836 * Thu Jan 31 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa@redhat.com - 4:5.8.8-33 - create %{_prefix}/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/%{perl_version}/auto and own it in base perl (resolves bugzilla 214580) * Mon Nov 26 2007 Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa@redhat.com - 4:5.8.8-32 - break dep loop, fix bugzilla 397881 * Mon Nov 12 2007 Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa@redhat.com - 4:5.8.8-31 - fix for CVE-2007-5116 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:

[ 1 ] Bug #443928 - CVE-2008-1927 perl: double free on regular expressions with utf8 characters https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443928 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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/.

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