Changeset 11cbbb0 for chapter06/perl.xml

Timestamp:

01/20/2006 02:22:56 PM (18 years ago)

Author:

Jeremy Huntwork <jhuntwork@…>

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Children:

1f7ca93

Parents:

d93d1c90

Message:

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

File:

• chapter06/perl.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter06/perl.xml

@@ -28 +28 @@
 <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