--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2005-600 2005-07-22 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Fedora Core 3 Name : perl Version : 5.8.5 Release : 14.FC3 Summary : The Perl programming 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. 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Paul Szabo discovered another vulnerability in the File::Path::rmtree function of perl, the popular scripting language. When a process is deleting a directory tree, a different user could exploit a race condition to create setuid binaries in this directory tree, provided that he already had write permissions in any subdirectory of that tree. Perl interpreter would cause a segmentation fault when environment changes during the runtime. Code in lib/FindBin contained a regression which caused problems with MRTG software package. All of the above problems are now fixed in perl-5.8.5-14.FC3. Please test as much as you can and report any problems/regressions. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Tue Jul 19 2005 Petr Rockai <prockai@xxxxxxxxxx> - 3:5.8.5-14.FC3 - patch -b caused spurious file installed - fix * Thu Jun 16 2005 Petr Rockai <prockai@xxxxxxxxxx> - 3:5.8.5-13.FC3 - fix for CAN-2005-0448 - patch by Brendan O'Dea from Debian, backported by myself - fix for BR127023 using the patch from the report (by Jose Pedro Oliveira) - Fix for BR159021, segfault on environment changes, upstream patch 23337. Thanks to bert.barbe <at> oracle.com for testcase and diagnostics. --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/ 6f60f74d3d9cef0e9efdef54a35a6de4 SRPMS/perl-5.8.5-14.FC3.src.rpm 58616227934b77107404475bfe3ec697 x86_64/perl-5.8.5-14.FC3.x86_64.rpm f2b3514689c93c5b32ec3307fa18eadc x86_64/perl-suidperl-5.8.5-14.FC3.x86_64.rpm 45a852f4458a8583e7d8b6a7054a0e77 x86_64/debug/perl-debuginfo-5.8.5-14.FC3.x86_64.rpm 2532ba2ea52ee21cd74abea025b824dd i386/perl-5.8.5-14.FC3.i386.rpm 9b473bff75f32b22350867f4fecfc426 i386/perl-suidperl-5.8.5-14.FC3.i386.rpm dc74c8297b53b42bd423489ac986eb8f i386/debug/perl-debuginfo-5.8.5-14.FC3.i386.rpm This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
