Mandriva: Updated perl packages fix denial of service


 
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Old 05-12-2008
Mandriva: Updated perl packages fix denial of service

LinuxSecurity.com: A double free vulnerability in Perl 5.8.8 and earlier versions, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via a crafted regular expression containing UTF8 characters. The updated packages have been patched to prevent this.

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Net::Rendezvous::Publish(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			     Net::Rendezvous::Publish(3pm)

NAME
Net::Rendezvous::Publish - publish Rendezvous services SYNOPSIS
use Net::Rendezvous::Publish; my $publisher = Net::Rendezvous::Publish->new or die "couldn't make a Responder object"; my $service = $publisher->publish( name => "My HTTP Server", type => '_http._tcp', port => 12345, ); while(1) { $publisher->step( 0.01 ) } DESCRIPTION
METHODS
new Creates a new publisher handle publish( %definition ) Returns a Net::Rendezvous::Publish::Service object. The following keys are meaningful in the service definition hash. name A descriptive name for the service. type The type of service. This is string of the form _service._protocol. port The port on which you're advertising the service. If you're not using a port (and instead just using mDNS as a way of propogating other service information) it's common practice to use 9 (the discard service) domain The domain in which to advertise a service. Defaults to "local." step( $seconds ) Spend at most $seconds seconds handling network events and updating internal state. TODO
At some point I may learn enough of the mDNS protocol to write a pure-perl responder. That'll be nifty. AUTHOR
Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net> COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2004, 2005, 2006, Richard Clamp. All Rights Reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. SEE ALSO
Net::Rendezous - for service browsing. Net::Rendezvous::Publish::Backend::* - you'll need one of these to talk to your local mDNS responder. perl v5.10.1 2010-06-07 Net::Rendezvous::Publish(3pm)