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Fedora 41: FEDORA-2025-aff64b1f48 critical: perl-CryptX code execution

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Calendar Grey June 27, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important patch for perl-CryptX in Fedora 41 addresses vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution, enhancing overall system security.
Update to 0.087, fixes CVE-2025-40914

Summary

This Perl library provides a cryptography based on LibTomCrypt library.

Update Information:

Update to 0.087, fixes CVE-2025-40914

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora critical code execution cryptographic perl-cryptx

Change Log

* Thu Jun 12 2025 Xavier Bachelot - 0.087-2 - Use any version of Math::BigInt and Math::BigFloat - Fix bundled Provides: * Wed Jun 11 2025 Xavier Bachelot - 0.087-1 - Update to 0.087 (RHBZ#2372355,RHBZ#2372356,RHBZ#2372357,RHBZ#2372358) - Fix CVE-2025-40914 * Sat May 3 2025 Xavier Bachelot - 0.086-1 - Update to 0.086 (RHBZ#2363852, RHBZ#2354493) * Tue Feb 11 2025 Xavier Bachelot - 0.085-1 - Update to 0.085 (RHBZ#2344451) * Sat Jan 18 2025 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.084-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_42_Mass_Rebuild * Wed Oct 16 2024 Xavier Bachelot - 0.084-1 - Update to 0.084 (RHBZ#2319152) * Tue Oct 15 2024 Xavier Bachelot - 0.083-1 - Update to 0.083 (RHBZ#2310725) - Drop EL7 support - Fix Math::BigInt/BigFloat versions and conditionals

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2372355 - CVE-2025-40914 perl-CryptX: Perl CryptX code execution via integer overflow [epel-8] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2372355 [ 2 ] Bug #2372356 - CVE-2025-40914 perl-CryptX: Perl CryptX code execution via integer overflow [epel-9] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2372356 [ 3 ] Bug #2372357 - CVE-2025-40914 perl-CryptX: Perl CryptX code execution via integer overflow [fedora-41] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2372357 [ 4 ] Bug #2372358 - CVE-2025-40914 perl-CryptX: Perl CryptX code execution via integer overflow [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2372358

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-aff64b1f48' 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-CryptX
Product: Fedora 41
Version: 0.087
Release: 2.fc41
URL: https://metacpan.org/release/CryptX
Summary: Cryptographic toolkit

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora critical code execution cryptographic perl-cryptx

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