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Fedora 41: 2025-11fcc87c66 critical: perl-Devel-Cover heap overflow

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Calendar Grey April 22, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Addressed memory overflow issues in perl-Devel-Cover for Fedora 41 to enhance both security measures and metrics for code coverage.
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

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora heap overflow perl module code coverage

Change Log

* Tue Apr 15 2025 Jitka Plesnikova - 1.44-4 - Rebuild for Perl 5.40.2

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2359475 - 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-41] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2359475

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-11fcc87c66' 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-Devel-Cover
Product: Fedora 41
Version: 1.44
Release: 4.fc41
URL: https://metacpan.org/dist/Devel-Cover
Summary: Code coverage metrics for Perl

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora heap overflow perl module code coverage

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