-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2016-742bde2be7 2016-07-18 15:51:19.078569 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : perl Product : Fedora 23 Version : 5.22.2 Release : 353.fc23 URL : http://www.perl.org/ Summary : Practical Extraction and Report 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.
Install this package if you want to program in Perl or enable your system to handle Perl scripts with /usr/bin/perl interpreter.
If your script requires some Perl modules, you can install them with "perl(MODULE)" where "MODULE" is a name of required module. E.g. install "perl(Test::More)" to make Test::More Perl module available.
If you need all the Perl modules that come with upstream Perl sources, so called core modules, install perl-core package.
If you only need perl run-time as a shared library, i.e. Perl interpreter embedded into another application, the only essential package is perl-libs.
Perl header files can be found in perl-devel package.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
This fixes CVE-2016-6185 vulnerability (do not let XSLoader load relative paths). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1354386 - CVE-2016-6185 perl: XSLoader loads relative paths not included in @INC https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1354386 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update perl' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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