:eWeek: Is a New Vulnerability the Tip of the Perl Iceberg?
eWeek: Is a New Vulnerability the Tip of the Perl Iceberg? Dec 8, 2005, 00 :00 UTC (3 Talkback[s]) (5946 reads) (Other stories by Larry Seltzer)
"Last week a serious vulnerability was revealed to relatively little attention from the press, or even from security circles. I think it's a real nasty one, especially in as much as it will go widely unpatched.
"The program at issue is the ubiquitous Perl programming language. Perl is a scripting language, which means a lot of things to different people, but I think the main characteristic is that it's interpreted in source form in a sort of virtual machine..."
