Re^9: Beginner Recommendations

Correction: I do not host my website on my computer. That was a misunderstanding. I thought you asked if I store html and perl files on my computer. I do, but I don't host them as a webhost. My computer is connected to the internet only while I am sitting at my desk. When I am not there, I turn it off. And it has Windows XP on it. I don't think it could be turned into a hosting machine. All my sites are hosted at 100webspace.com where it looks like they use perl 5.016003. http://www.wzsn.net/list.pl

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Re^10: Beginner Recommendations by marto (Cardinal) on Jan 27, 2023 at 16:39 UTC
None of this invalidates anything hv said, also 5.16 < 5.18...	[reply]
Re^11: Beginner Recommendations by hv (Prior) on Jan 27, 2023 at 18:37 UTC
The 5.18 fix would have been backported some, certainly to 5.16: I should have said "if you are running a perl much earlier than 5.18". I do know it wasn't ported as far as 5.8, which my $work was running at the time - I had to make the patch for that myself, and then come up with a plan to deploy it for a company that had had so many problems with a previous 5.6 -> 5.8 upgrade they had pretty much resolved never to upgrade again. Happily, the eventual result was that they actually started upgrading perl more regularly again.	[reply]
Re^12: Beginner Recommendations by marto (Cardinal) on Jan 27, 2023 at 18:58 UTC
In the past I've worked for hosts small and large. They didn't upgrade anything, unless an OS upgrade occurred. A lot of 'low cost' hosts are like this, sadly. While 5.16.3 may have a backport for CVE-2013-1667, I doubt it caters for all the others.	[reply]