RHBA-2006:0294 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated perl packages that fix various bugs are now available.

Description

Perl is a high-level programming language with roots in C, sed, awk and
shell scripting.

This update addresses the following issues:

• perl operation in UTF-8 enabled locales
• handling an alarm signal while a waitpid() is in progress
• the default length of an ioctl 3rd argument when no length bitfield is

specified

• some generated perl headers are not require-able by perl programs
• fixes for tell() ftell(3) wrapper for files opened in append mode

All users of perl are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
resolve these issues.

Solution

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

This update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network,
launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:

up2date

This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate
RPMs being upgraded on your system.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 3 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 3 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 3 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 3 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 3 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 3 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 3 s390
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 3 ppc

Fixes

• BZ - 112339 - Perl is unable to work with regex under UTF-8 locale with input readed from files
• BZ - 122378 - Perl SEGV's while running "make test" for perl module Crypt::Random
• BZ - 185241 - ioctl default minimum argument length of 256 should be restored
• BZ - 185623 - tell doesn't return right value when appending
• BZ - 189833 - h2ph problem with gcc internal defines

CVEs

• CVE-2003-0618

References

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