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Fedora 38: FEDORA-2023-46924e402a Moderate: TLS Security Fix for CPAN

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Calendar Grey July 9, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Enhancement patch for TLS authentication in perl-CPAN following the Fedora 38 upgrade to ensure safer download processes.
Security fix for CVE-2023-31484 CPAN.pm before 2.35 does not verify TLS certificates when downloading distributions over HTTPS

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-2023-31484 CPAN.pm before 2.35 does not verify TLS

certificates when downloading distributions over HTTPS. CPAN 2.35 - Add

verify_SSL=>1 to HTTP::Tiny to verify https server identity

* Mon May 15 2023 Jitka Plesnikova - 2.36-1

- 2.36 bump

* Tue May 2 2023 Jitka Plesnikova - 2.35-1

- 2.35 bump

[ 1 ] Bug #2218667 - CVE-2023-31484 perl: CPAN.pm before 2.35 does not verify TLS certificates when downloading distributions over HTTPS

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2218667

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-46924e402a' 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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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 38
Version: 2.36
Release: 1.fc38
Summary: Query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites

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