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Fedora 38 perl-PAR-Packer Critical Update: CVE-2023-47038 Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey December 17, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Significant news for perl-PAR-Packer in Fedora 38 about the serious flaw CVE-2023-47038 that demands attention.
Security fix for CVE-2023-47038

Summary

This module implements the App::Packer::Backend interface, for generating

stand-alone executables, perl scripts and PAR files.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2023-47038

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow Fedora critical update perl module CWE-123

Change Log

* Thu Nov 30 2023 Jitka Plesnikova - 1.057-4 - Rebuild for Perl 5.36.3

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2251622 - CVE-2023-47038 perl: Write past buffer end via illegal user-defined Unicode property [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2251622

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-9ef8a60a05' 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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Name: perl-PAR-Packer
Product: Fedora 38
Version: 1.057
Release: 4.fc38
URL: https://metacpan.org/dist/PAR-Packer
Summary: PAR Packager

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow Fedora critical update perl module CWE-123

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