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| author | Jeremy Huntwork <jhuntwork@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2006-01-20 14:22:56 +0000 |
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| committer | Jeremy Huntwork <jhuntwork@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2006-01-20 14:22:56 +0000 |
| commit | 11cbbb04522b834acbb8e353c7fcc4b006c56b3d (patch) | |
| tree | 5f0530d4454247d330d1d3315487e1dcd598bc61 /chapter06 | |
| parent | d93d1c90ae8ca33bb0726c4444d9fb60830fd0c1 (diff) | |
Added a patch to fix the sprintf security vulnerability in Perl.
Thanks to Tim van der Molen for pointing it out.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@7284 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/perl.xml | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/perl.xml b/chapter06/perl.xml index 1ce3a7e05..33ec77102 100644 --- a/chapter06/perl.xml +++ b/chapter06/perl.xml @@ -28,6 +28,11 @@ Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed</seg></seglistitem> <sect2 role="installation"> <title>Installation of Perl</title> +<para>A security vulnerability exists in Perl's sprintf function. Apply the +following patch to fix it.</para> + +<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&perl-sprintf-patch;</userinput></screen> + <para>First create a basic <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file which will be referenced in one of Perl's configuration files as well as being used used by the testsuite if you run that.</para> |