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Fedora 34: 2022-84fd87f7eb Moderate: Perl-CPAN Signature Bypass

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Calendar Grey January 11, 2022
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Significant security remedy for perl-CPAN in Fedora 34 resolving signature validation circumvention problem.
Security fix for CVE-2020-16156

Summary

The CPAN module automates or at least simplifies the make and install of

perl modules and extensions. It includes some primitive searching

capabilities and knows how to use LWP, HTTP::Tiny, Net::FTP and certain

external download clients to fetch distributions from the net.

Security fix for CVE-2020-16156

* Thu Dec 16 2021 Jitka Plesnikova - 2.29-1

- 2.29 bump

[ 1 ] Bug #2035273 - CVE-2020-16156 perl-CPAN: Bypass of verification of signatures in CHECKSUMS files

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2035273

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-84fd87f7eb' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 34
Version: 2.29
Release: 1.fc34
Summary: Query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites

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