Issued:
2013-09-30
Updated:
2013-09-30

RHBA-2013:1296 - perl bug fix update

Synopsis

perl bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated perl packages that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The perl packages provide the high-level programming language Perl, which is commonly used for system administration utilities and web programming.

This update fixes the following bugs:

  • Previously, calling the POSIX::strftime() function resulted in a string longer than 64 bytes and, consequently, to a memory leak. This led to memory loss. With this update, memory allocation in the POSIX::strftime() function implementation has been changed to reallocate memory, which prevents memory loss from occurring. (BZ#800340)

  • Previously, certain modules using Perl scripts, which use the overload() function in a specific way, were impacted by a performance regression. Consequently, users could observe slower operation of such scripts after an upgrade of the perl packages. A patch has been applied to prevent this bug. (BZ#848156)

Users of perl are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian5ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems5s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5i386

Updated Packages

  • perl-debuginfo-5.8.8-41.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • perl-suidperl-5.8.8-41.el5.i386.rpm
  • perl-debuginfo-5.8.8-41.el5.ppc.rpm
  • perl-5.8.8-41.el5.ppc.rpm
  • perl-suidperl-5.8.8-41.el5.ia64.rpm
  • perl-5.8.8-41.el5.ia64.rpm
  • perl-suidperl-5.8.8-41.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • perl-5.8.8-41.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • perl-debuginfo-5.8.8-41.el5.i386.rpm
  • perl-5.8.8-41.el5.i386.rpm
  • perl-debuginfo-5.8.8-41.el5.ia64.rpm
  • perl-debuginfo-5.8.8-41.el5.s390x.rpm
  • perl-5.8.8-41.el5.src.rpm
  • perl-5.8.8-41.el5.s390x.rpm
  • perl-suidperl-5.8.8-41.el5.ppc.rpm
  • perl-suidperl-5.8.8-41.el5.s390x.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information