development/languages

perl - The Perl programming language

Website: http://www.perl.org/
License: Artistic or GPL
Vendor: Scientific Linux
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.

Packages

perl-5.8.8-40.el5_9.i386 [11.7 MiB] Changelog by Petr Pisar (2013-03-04):
- Fix CVE-2012-5195 heap buffer overrun at repeatcpy (Resolves: rhbz#915690)
- Fix CVE-2012-5526 newline injection due to improper CRLF escaping in
  Set-Cookie and P3P headers (Resolves: rhbz#915690)
- Fix CVE-2012-6329 possible arbitrary code execution via Locale::Maketext
  (Resolves: rhbz#915690)
- Fix CVE-2013-1667 DoS in rehashing code (Resolves: rhbz#915690)

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