RHBA-2009:0406 - Bug Fix Advisory

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

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