Fedora 26: perl Security Update 2017-89492f7161
Summary
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.
Install this package if you want to program in Perl or enable your system to
handle Perl scripts with /usr/bin/perl interpreter.
If your script requires some Perl modules, you can install them with
"perl(MODULE)" where "MODULE" is a name of required module. E.g. install
"perl(Test::More)" to make Test::More Perl module available.
If you need all the Perl modules that come with upstream Perl sources, so
called core modules, install perl-core package.
If you only need perl run-time as a shared library, i.e. Perl interpreter
embedded into another application, the only essential package is perl-libs.
Perl header files can be found in perl-devel package.
Perl utils like "splain" or "perlbug" can be found in perl-utils package.
Update perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_*) ---- Security fix for CVE-2017-12837
CVE-2017-12883 (see
[ 1 ] Bug #1492091 - CVE-2017-12837 perl: Heap buffer overflow in regular expression compiler
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1492091
[ 2 ] Bug #1492093 - CVE-2017-12883 perl: Buffer over-read in regular expression parser
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1492093
su -c 'dnf upgrade perl' at the command line.
For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html
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FEDORA-2017-89492f7161 2017-10-02 14:21:42.635712 Product : Fedora 26 Version : 5.24.3 Release : 395.fc26 URL : https://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. Install this package if you want to program in Perl or enable your system to handle Perl scripts with /usr/bin/perl interpreter. If your script requires some Perl modules, you can install them with "perl(MODULE)" where "MODULE" is a name of required module. E.g. install "perl(Test::More)" to make Test::More Perl module available. If you need all the Perl modules that come with upstream Perl sources, so called core modules, install perl-core package. If you only need perl run-time as a shared library, i.e. Perl interpreter embedded into another application, the only essential package is perl-libs. Perl header files can be found in perl-devel package. Perl utils like "splain" or "perlbug" can be found in perl-utils package. Update perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_*) ---- Security fix for CVE-2017-12837 CVE-2017-12883 (see ) [ 1 ] Bug #1492091 - CVE-2017-12837 perl: Heap buffer overflow in regular expression compiler https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1492091 [ 2 ] Bug #1492093 - CVE-2017-12883 perl: Buffer over-read in regular expression parser https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1492093 su -c 'dnf upgrade perl' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html 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/security/ package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to package-announce-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org
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