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Fedora 40 perl-PAR-Packer 2025-8445f115f6 critical: heap overflow

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Calendar Grey April 30, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
An improvement in the heap memory management within perl-PAR-Packer on Fedora 40 significantly boosts the security and reliability of various systems.
Fix CVE-2024-56406

Summary

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

stand-alone executables, perl scripts and PAR files.

Update Information:

Fix CVE-2024-56406

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Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora vulnerability heap overflow perl-PAR-Packer

Change Log

* Tue Apr 15 2025 Jitka Plesnikova - 1.063-3 - 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

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Name: perl-PAR-Packer
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 1.063
Release: 3.fc40
URL: https://metacpan.org/dist/PAR-Packer
Summary: PAR Packager

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Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora vulnerability heap overflow perl-PAR-Packer

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