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Fedora 41: Critical Perl Update Addresses 5.40.3 Code Execution Flaw

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Calendar Grey August 9, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important announcement regarding Fedora 41: Perl 5.40.3 resolves multiple significant bugs and enhances overall performance.
Updated perl to version 5.40.3 https://metacpan.org/release/SHAY/perl-5.40.3/view/pod/perldelta.pod

Summary

Perl is a high-level programming language with roots in C, sed, awk and shell

scripting. Perl is good at handling processes and files, and is especially

good at handling text. Perl's hallmarks are practicality and efficiency.

While it is used to do a lot of different things, Perl's most common

applications are system administration utilities and web programming.

This is a metapackage with all the Perl bits and core modules that can be

found in the upstream tarball from perl.org.

If you need only a specific feature, you can install a specific package

instead. E.g. to handle Perl scripts with /usr/bin/perl interpreter,

install perl-interpreter package. See perl-interpreter description for more

details on the Perl decomposition into packages.

Update Information:

Updated perl to version 5.40.3 https://metacpan.org/release/SHAY/perl-5.40.3/view/pod/perldelta.pod

Change Log

* Mon Aug 4 2025 Jitka Plesnikova - 4:5.40.3-517 - 5.40.3 bump (see )

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2386552 - F41FailsToInstall: perl-Devel-Cover https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2386552 [ 2 ] Bug #2386553 - F41FailsToInstall: perl-PAR-Packer https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2386553 [ 3 ] Bug #2386554 - F41FailsToInstall: polymake https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2386554

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-9988949ccd' 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
Product: Fedora 41
Version: 5.40.3
Release: 517.fc41
Summary: Practical Extraction and Report Language

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