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perl: The Perl programming language.
| Name: | perl |
Vendor: | Scientific Linux |
| Version: | 5.8.5 |
License: | Artistic or GPL |
| Release: | 24.RHEL4 |
URL: | http://www.perl.org/ |
- 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. 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.
Changelog
- * Fri Dec 16 18:00:00 2005 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias{%}redhat{*}com> - 2:5.8.5-24.RHEL4
- fix to fix for CVE-2004-0976 / bz136325: perl5db.pl typo '/tmp' -> '"/tmp"'!
- * Mon Dec 12 18:00:00 2005 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias{%}redhat{*}com> - 2:5.8.5-22.RHEL4
- Further enhancements to sprintf integer overflow patch
(Upstream patches 26322 26331 and 26333 for CVE-2005-3962 / bz174717 )
- Fix CVE-2004-0976 / bz136325: fix issues with solardesigner's patch
to perldbtty.pl and c2ph.PL, pointed out by Pekka Savola and David Eisenstein
- * Fri Dec 9 18:00:00 2005 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias{%}redhat{*}com> - 3:5.8.5-20.RHEL4
- Apply upstream patches 26283 and 26284 : complete, revised fixes
for bug 174683 / CVE-2005-3962 and CVE-2005-3912 and
"Sys::Syslog security vulnerabilities" issues.
- Fix bug 136009 / MakeMaker LD_RUN_PATH issue:
restore previous default Red Hat behavior of removing the MakeMaker
generated LD_RUN_PATH setting from the link command .
Document this removal, as it contravenes upstream default behavior, and
provide a USE_MM_LD_RUN_PATH MakeMaker member to enable use of the
MakeMaker generated LD_RUN_PATH .