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Branch: pkgsrc-2007Q3, Version: 5.8.8nb5, Package name: perl-5.8.8nb5, Maintainer: jlam

Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed
for text manipulation and now used for a wide range of tasks including
system administration, web development, network programming, GUI
development, and more. The language is intended to be practical (easy
to use, efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant,
minimal). Its major features are that it's easy to use, supports both
procedural and object-oriented (OO) programming, has powerful built-in
support for text processing, and has one of the world's most impressive
collections of third-party modules.



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RMD160: e78f26d9b96e6db35f946ad4ff55e3a69385c71b
Filesize: 9886.093 KB

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   2007-11-07 13:44:34 by Geert Hendrickx | Files touched by this commit (3) 
Log message:
Pullup ticket 2222 - requested by drochner
security fix for perl

- pkgsrc/lang/perl5/Makefile				1.129
- pkgsrc/lang/perl5/distinfo				1.43
- pkgsrc/lang/perl5/patches/patch-da			1.1

   Module Name:    pkgsrc
   Committed By:   drochner
   Date:           Tue Nov  6 19:54:53 UTC 2007

   Modified Files:
	   pkgsrc/lang/perl5: Makefile distinfo
   Added Files:
	   pkgsrc/lang/perl5/patches: patch-da

   Log message:
   add a patch from Redhat bugzilla #323571 to fix CVE-2007-5116:
   A flaw was found in Perl's regular expression engine. Specially crafted
   input to a regular expression can cause Perl to improperly allocate memory,
   possibly resulting in arbitrary code running with the permissions of the
   user running Perl.