diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 9854ad602..3c7f6bffd 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -35,6 +35,17 @@
-->
+
+
+ January 20, 2006
+
+
+ [jhuntwork] - Added a patch to fix the sprintf security
+ vulnerability in Perl. Thanks to Tim van der Molen for pointing it out.
+
+
+
+
January 17, 2006
@@ -45,7 +56,6 @@
-
January 10, 2006
diff --git a/chapter06/perl.xml b/chapter06/perl.xml
index 1ce3a7e05..33ec77102 100644
--- a/chapter06/perl.xml
+++ b/chapter06/perl.xml
@@ -28,6 +28,11 @@ Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed
Installation of Perl
+A security vulnerability exists in Perl's sprintf function. Apply the
+following patch to fix it.
+
+patch -Np1 -i ../&perl-sprintf-patch;
+
First create a basic /etc/hosts file which will be
referenced in one of Perl's configuration files as well as being used used by
the testsuite if you run that.
diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index 3b98acc74..977fa251f 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-
-
+
+
diff --git a/patches.ent b/patches.ent
index fff66b690..fe91241be 100644
--- a/patches.ent
+++ b/patches.ent
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
+