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perl: The Perl programming language.
| Name: | perl |
Vendor: | Fermi |
| Version: | 5.8.0 |
License: | Artistic |
| Release: | 93.EL3 |
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- 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
- * Tue Apr 25 19:00:00 2006 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias{%}redhat{*}com> - 2:5.8.0-93.EL3
- back out fix for security issue CVE-2003-0618 / bug 189837
at management request
- * Mon Apr 24 19:00:00 2006 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias{%}redhat{*}com> - 2:5.8.0-93.EL3
- fix minor security issue CVE-2003-0618: suidperl could be used to
reveal locations of files in hidden directories
- fix perl header file generation
- * Thu Mar 23 18:00:00 2006 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias{%}redhat{*}com> - 2:5.8.0-92.0
- fix bug 122278: prevent utf8.c's Perl_swash_init() from changing
active namespace (so now Class::Loader works with
UTF-8 enabled). This should be the last UTF-8 issue!