Change logs for perl source package in Zesty

  • perl (5.24.1-2ubuntu1.1) zesty-security; urgency=medium
    
      * SECURITY UPDATE: Buffer overflow via crafted regular expressiion
        - debian/patches/fixes/CVE-2017-12883.patch: fix crafted expression
          with invalid '\N{U+...}' escape in regcomp.c
        - CVE-2017-12883
      * SECURITY UPDATE: heap-based buffer overflow in S_regatom
        - debian/patches/fixes/CVE-2017-12837.patch: fix issue in regcomp.c
        - CVE-2017-12837
    
     -- <email address hidden> (Leonidas S. Barbosa)  Fri, 10 Nov 2017 11:07:03 -0300
  • perl (5.24.1-2ubuntu1) zesty; urgency=medium
    
      * d/p/f/Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.071-Adapt-tests-to-zlib-1.2.11.patch,
        d/p/f/0001-Adapt-tests-to-zlib-1.2.11.patch:
        - backport upstream patch to fix t/02zlib.t because of new zlib
    
     -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden>  Sat, 18 Mar 2017 18:00:39 +0100
  • perl (5.24.1-2) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Apply patch from upstream fixing leak in list assignment
        (Closes: #855064)
      * Clarify documentation of 'do' in the face of '.' being removed
        from @INC (Closes: #839536)
    
     -- Dominic Hargreaves <email address hidden>  Thu, 16 Mar 2017 11:11:46 +0000
  • perl (5.24.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [ Dominic Hargreaves ]
      * Break libexception-class-perl (<< 1.42) since this version fixes an
        @INC related vulnerability potentially exposed by the reversion of the
        base.pm changes below.
      * Remove <nocheck> profile flag for build dependency on file, as it
        is needed outside the test suite (Closes: #850296)
    
      [ Niko Tyni ]
      * Use https for URLs in the patchlevel list.
      * Refresh cross build support files.
    
      [ Dominic Hargreaves ]
      * New upstream release
    
     -- Dominic Hargreaves <email address hidden>  Sun, 15 Jan 2017 23:35:20 +0000
  • perl (5.24.1~rc4-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [ Dominic Hargreaves ]
      * Fix Vcs-Git header. Thanks to Axel Beckert (Closes: #839057)
      * Add Breaks on dh-haskell (<< 0.3) (Closes: #839018)
      * Add workaround for optimization test failure on HPPA (Closes: #838613)
    
      [ Niko Tyni ]
      * Import new upstream release candidate with improved @INC localizing
        in base.pm.
      * Patch Test::Builder to fix a 'used only once' warning. (Closes: #840968)
      * Sort the binary package conffile lists for reproducibility.
      * Break amanda-common versions built against perlapi-5.22. (See #843700)
      * Patch Configure to filter longdblinfbytes randomness for
        build reproducibility. (Closes: #844752)
      * Patch installman to generate man pages with UTF-8 characters.
        (Closes: #840211)
    
     -- Niko Tyni <email address hidden>  Sat, 26 Nov 2016 23:12:44 +0200
  • perl (5.24.1~rc3-3) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Reinstate perl-modules virtual package (Closes: #838855)
    
     -- Niko Tyni <email address hidden>  Sun, 25 Sep 2016 23:22:41 +0300
  • perl (5.22.2-3) unstable; urgency=high
    
      * [SECURITY] CVE-2016-1238: opportunistic loading of optional
        modules can make many programs unintentionally load code
        from the current working directory (which might be changed to
        another directory without the user realising).
        + allow user configurable removal of "." from @INC in
          /etc/perl/sitecustomize.pl for a transitional period. (See: #588017)
        + backport patches from [perl #127834] to fix known vulnerabilities
          even if the user does not configure "." to be removed from @INC
        + backport patches from [perl #127810] to fix various classes of
          build failures in perl and CPAN modules if "." is removed from
          @INC
    
     -- Dominic Hargreaves <email address hidden>  Mon, 25 Jul 2016 16:00:43 +0100