Fedora 9: FEDORA-2008-5739 Critical: Insecure Chmod in Rmtree

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.

CVE-2008-2827 perl: insecure use of chmod in rmtree

* Tue Jun 24 2008 Marcela Maslanova 4:5.10.0-27

- CVE-2008-2827 perl: insecure use of chmod in rmtree

* Thu Jun 12 2008 Stepan Kasal 4:5.10.0-26

- make config parameter list consistent for 32bit and 64bit platforms,

add config option -Dinc_version_list=none (#448735)

- use perl_archname consistently

- set siteprefix to prefix/local

* Wed Jun 11 2008 Marcela Maslanova 4:5.10.0-25

- 447371 wrong access permission rt49003

* Mon May 26 2008 Marcela Maslanova 4:5.10.0-24

- 448392 upstream fix for assertion

* Thu May 22 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway 4:5.10.0-23

- sparc64 breaks with the rpath hack patch applied

* Mon May 19 2008 Marcela Maslanova 4:5.10.0-22

- 447142 upgrade CGI to 3.37

* Sat May 17 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway 4:5.10.0-21

- sparc64 fails two tests under mysterious circumstances. we need to get the

rest of the tree moving, so we temporarily disable the tests on that arch.

[ 1 ] Bug #452635 - CVE-2008-2827 perl: insecure use of chmod in rmtree

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452635

su -c 'yum update perl' at the command line.

For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",

available at .

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/

Fedora-package-announce mailing list

Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/