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Fedora 40: perl-Devel-Cover moderate: fix heap overflow issue

fedora
Calendar Grey April 30, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Patch for Perl memory overflow impacting Fedora 40 to enhance test coverage reports. Apply the update immediately!
Fix CVE-2024-56406

Summary

This module provides code coverage metrics for Perl. Code coverage metrics

describe how thoroughly tests exercise code. By using Devel::Cover you can

discover areas of code not exercised by your tests and determine which

tests to create to increase coverage. Code coverage can be considered as an

indirect measure of quality.

Update Information:

Fix CVE-2024-56406

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora update information heap overflow perl module code quality

Change Log

* Tue Apr 15 2025 Jitka Plesnikova - 1.40-9 - Rebuild for Perl 5.38.4

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2359474 - CVE-2024-56406 perl: Perl 5.34, 5.36, 5.38 and 5.40 are vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow when transliterating non-ASCII bytes [fedora-40] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2359474

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-8445f115f6' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

Name: perl-Devel-Cover
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 1.40
Release: 9.fc40
URL: https://metacpan.org/dist/Devel-Cover
Summary: Code coverage metrics for Perl

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora update information heap overflow perl module code quality

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