eWeek: Is a New Vulnerability the Tip of the Perl Iceberg?

“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…”

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