Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 455933
CGI.pm complains about "Use of uninitialized value $filename in substitution"
Last modified: 2009-06-10 02:47:34 EDT
Description of problem: Any CGI script running on a Fedora 9 box that processes form information dumps a "Use of uninitialized value $filename in substitution" warning to Apache's error_log for each form variable. This is a known bug in CGI.pm 3.37: http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=36340 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=34551 It can be fixed either by updating to 3.38 or by applying the one-line patch found at the second URL. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): perl-5.10.0-30.fc9.i386 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Load a CGI script that processes form information. Actual results: Apache's error_log reports something similar to that below for each form variable: Fri Jul 18 13:40:20 2008] [error] [client aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd] [Fri Jul 18 13:40:20 2008] my.cgi: Use of uninitialized value $filename in substitution (s///) at (eval 6) line 23., referer: http://example.org/myform.html Expected results: No warnings in error_log.
I prefer update.
perl-5.10.0-31.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9
perl-5.10.0-31.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update perl'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-6631
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