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Fedora 34: 2021-3393b2b19d Moderate: IP Address Leading Zero Issue

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Calendar Grey April 24, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The revision disallows IP addresses that feature leading zeroes in their octet segments to prevent ambiguity between octal and decimal interpretations.
This update disallows use of IP addresses with leading zeroes in the octet values, which could have been interpreted ambiguously as either octal or decimal values.

Summary

Faster alternative to Net::CIDR when merging a large number of CIDR address

ranges. Works for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.

This update disallows use of IP addresses with leading zeroes in the octet

values, which could have been interpreted ambiguously as either octal or decimal

values.

* Mon Apr 5 2021 Paul Howarth - 0.22-1

- Update to 0.22

- Security: IPv4 octets with leading zeroes are no longer allowed

https://blog.urth.org/2021/03/29/security-issues-in-perl-ip-address-distros/

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-3393b2b19d' at the command

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

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

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Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 34
Version: 0.22
Release: 1.fc34
Summary: Perl extension for merging IPv4 or IPv6 CIDR addresses

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