Fedora Core 3: FEDORA-2005-353 Critical: Perl 5.8.5 Security Fix

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.

Security and packaging fixes.

- Apply fix for CAN-2004-0452 (#156128, #146774).

- Drop incorrect provides from the main package and release tag munging

from the suidperl subpackage (#148847, José Pedro Oliveira).

* Fri Apr 1 2005 Petr Rockai - 3:5.8.5-11.FC3

- Do not link with libbind... (backported patch from devel).

* Wed Mar 31 2005 Petr Rockai - 3:5.8.5-10.FC3

- Fix for CAN-2005-0155, CAN-2005-0156.

- Work around a FTBFS (fails to build from source) in fc3 buildroots.

1509fe0fadb22b69b5f878341b34d767 SRPMS/perl-5.8.5-12.FC3.src.rpm

c90f95a4aacf003d94d2420dd6629650 x86_64/perl-5.8.5-12.FC3.x86_64.rpm

c46fe5d5db1ca845e67b39f21ea37d99

x86_64/perl-suidperl-5.8.5-12.FC3.x86_64.rpm

32a2972a6d1d56a60a213249e70ac7ff

x86_64/debug/perl-debuginfo-5.8.5-12.FC3.x86_64.rpm

fb672eecfac3216363fae01b52cb1fd8 i386/perl-5.8.5-12.FC3.i386.rpm

c54d4bb985501c643eb7be1309543779 i386/perl-suidperl-5.8.5-12.FC3.i386.rpm

dbbc18ba952c8df14788658dcf13d014

i386/debug/perl-debuginfo-5.8.5-12.FC3.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can

launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.

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