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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2009:0406 - Bug Fix Advisory
Issued:
2009-04-02
Updated:
2009-04-02

RHBA-2009:0406 - Bug Fix Advisory

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Synopsis

perl bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

An updated perl package that fixes a bug is now available.

Description

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.

These updated perl packages provide a fix for the following bug:

  • the Time::HiRes Perl module is incompatible with the latest version of

glibc, which caused setitimer errors to be written to /var/log/dmesg when
the alarm() function of HiRes was called with a time greater than one
second. With this update, the Time::HiRes module calls setitimer with the
correct parameters and no error messages are written to /var/log/dmesg,
thus resolving this issue.

Users are advised to upgrade to these updated perl packages, which resolve
these issues and add this enhancement.

Solution

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

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 5.3 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 5.3 ia64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 5.3 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 5.3 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 5.3 ia64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 5.3 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 5.3 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 5.3 ppc
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

  • BZ - 492112 - Time::HiRes V1.86 does work correctly with current glibc

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5

SRPM
perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1.src.rpm SHA-256: 726e1e0177ee7db66902acf05623b4aec78d3acc28d2a03e8abf446c05022a34
x86_64
perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: b583d399fcf478f4b98be8c46d619f71481e4f8ab8ee03235e660dc76c0fb6e4
perl-suidperl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 883eaaabbc16169745424aad98e4009b95241573269cb66a758188cdf1ad05ef
ia64
perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1.ia64.rpm SHA-256: ffdd7a719d9e6d5590fad3a8bf7cf3b23de69944f942af47ff82584d0bf53b61
perl-suidperl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1.ia64.rpm SHA-256: 6091c896ef404417e28e3b8b1a1484d1c12ea553fd77fcd38c18662da9153ba9
i386
perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1.i386.rpm SHA-256: e2f70bd71414258aab95b7e7a4af00c76403fc9fc117d38a7e8c90cb46f3c469
perl-suidperl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1.i386.rpm SHA-256: d99933dd6eb09dc99b5bc93a97a17f246306a6c0581410aacb4b27ff603e0480

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 5.3

SRPM
x86_64
ia64
i386

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 5.3

SRPM
x86_64
ia64
i386

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5

SRPM
perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1.src.rpm SHA-256: 726e1e0177ee7db66902acf05623b4aec78d3acc28d2a03e8abf446c05022a34
x86_64
perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1.i386.rpm SHA-256: e2f70bd71414258aab95b7e7a4af00c76403fc9fc117d38a7e8c90cb46f3c469
perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: b583d399fcf478f4b98be8c46d619f71481e4f8ab8ee03235e660dc76c0fb6e4
perl-suidperl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 883eaaabbc16169745424aad98e4009b95241573269cb66a758188cdf1ad05ef
i386
perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1.i386.rpm SHA-256: e2f70bd71414258aab95b7e7a4af00c76403fc9fc117d38a7e8c90cb46f3c469
perl-suidperl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1.i386.rpm SHA-256: d99933dd6eb09dc99b5bc93a97a17f246306a6c0581410aacb4b27ff603e0480

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5

SRPM
perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1.src.rpm SHA-256: 726e1e0177ee7db66902acf05623b4aec78d3acc28d2a03e8abf446c05022a34
x86_64
perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1.i386.rpm SHA-256: e2f70bd71414258aab95b7e7a4af00c76403fc9fc117d38a7e8c90cb46f3c469
perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: b583d399fcf478f4b98be8c46d619f71481e4f8ab8ee03235e660dc76c0fb6e4
perl-suidperl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 883eaaabbc16169745424aad98e4009b95241573269cb66a758188cdf1ad05ef
i386
perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1.i386.rpm SHA-256: e2f70bd71414258aab95b7e7a4af00c76403fc9fc117d38a7e8c90cb46f3c469
perl-suidperl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1.i386.rpm SHA-256: d99933dd6eb09dc99b5bc93a97a17f246306a6c0581410aacb4b27ff603e0480

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5

SRPM
perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1.src.rpm SHA-256: 726e1e0177ee7db66902acf05623b4aec78d3acc28d2a03e8abf446c05022a34
s390x
perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1.s390x.rpm SHA-256: f4c795668c3b7cd0da022ff2a70c2a30cd533362ef935ea5eae93cb59e677e96
perl-suidperl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 050fcee9af813bc2414cf7e04cbc762e692a507cb3fef9edfa1d82f5b0e1be13

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 5.3

SRPM
s390x

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5

SRPM
perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1.src.rpm SHA-256: 726e1e0177ee7db66902acf05623b4aec78d3acc28d2a03e8abf446c05022a34
ppc
perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1.ppc.rpm SHA-256: 76bfe3a698663165e61eb7585d651d992f742e4ae4b8579414883ca984885a5f
perl-suidperl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1.ppc.rpm SHA-256: 312abc9fbb64c51b425e750848dce72dda8f851fd3c2a8e97322d538f61729e4

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 5.3

SRPM
ppc

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5

SRPM
perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1.src.rpm SHA-256: 726e1e0177ee7db66902acf05623b4aec78d3acc28d2a03e8abf446c05022a34
x86_64
perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: b583d399fcf478f4b98be8c46d619f71481e4f8ab8ee03235e660dc76c0fb6e4
perl-suidperl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 883eaaabbc16169745424aad98e4009b95241573269cb66a758188cdf1ad05ef
i386
perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1.i386.rpm SHA-256: e2f70bd71414258aab95b7e7a4af00c76403fc9fc117d38a7e8c90cb46f3c469
perl-suidperl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1.i386.rpm SHA-256: d99933dd6eb09dc99b5bc93a97a17f246306a6c0581410aacb4b27ff603e0480

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