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perl security vulnerability fix on AIX Toolbox

  • 1.  perl security vulnerability fix on AIX Toolbox

    Posted Thu February 07, 2019 05:45 AM

    Originally posted by: sanket


     

    perl-5.28.1-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm is now available on AIX toolbox.

    This version of perl has fixes for following security vulnerabilities.

    CVE-2018-18311
    CVE-2018-18312
    CVE-2018-18313
    CVE-2018-18314

     

    You can also use YUM to update to this versions of perl from AIX toolbox repository


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  • 2.  Re: perl security vulnerability fix on AIX Toolbox

    Posted Thu April 25, 2019 06:46 PM

    Originally posted by: james.franznick


    Please rebuild without the hard coded xlc_r path (/usr/vac/bin/) and the installprefix set to /var/opt/freeware/tmp/perl-root/opt/freeware

    We would also like a build that utilizes gcc instead of xlc


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