[SECURITY] Fedora Core 6 Update: perl-5.8.8-12

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...

[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: perl-5.8.8-26.fc7

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...

RHEL 4 : perl (RHSA-2005:880)

Updated Perl packages that fix security issues and bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Perl is a high-level programming language commonly used for system administration utilitie...

Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: perl security update

Updated Perl packages that fix security issues and contain several bug fixes are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Perl is a high-level programming language commonly used for system...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: perl security update

Updated Perl packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team Perl is a high-level programming language commonly used for system administration utilities...

Perl: Insecure temporary file creation

Background Perl is a stable, cross-platform programming language created by Larry Wall. Description Some Perl modules create temporary files in world-writable directories with predictable names. Impact A local attacker could create symbolic links in the temporary files directory, pointing to a...