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Fedora 41: FEDORA-2025-11fcc87c66 critical: perl-PAR-Packer buffer overflow

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Calendar Grey April 22, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 41's perl-PAR-Packer update fixes a critical buffer overflow bug, CVE-2024-56406, with easy installation steps.
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 buffer overflow Fedora update information perl module heaps management

Change Log

* Tue Apr 15 2025 Jitka Plesnikova - 1.063-5 - 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-PAR-Packer
Product: Fedora 41
Version: 1.063
Release: 5.fc41
URL: https://metacpan.org/dist/PAR-Packer
Summary: PAR Packager

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow Fedora update information perl module heaps management

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