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Fedora 42 perl: 2025-26c0346398 critical: CVE-2024-56406 patch

fedora
Calendar Grey April 17, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
To fix CVE-2024-56406 in Fedora 42's perl package, keep your system updated, apply patches, and monitor Fedora’s documentation for more info and precautions.
Fix CVE-2024-56406

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:

Fix CVE-2024-56406

Change Log

* Mon Apr 14 2025 Jitka Plesnikova - 4:5.40.2-517 - Fix MODULE_COMPAT * Mon Apr 14 2025 Jitka Plesnikova - 4:5.40.2-516 - 5.40.2 bump (see )

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2025-26c0346398 2025-04-17 18:59:47.310510+00:00 Name : perl Product : Fedora 42 Version : 5.40.2 Release : 517.fc42 URL : https://www.perl.org/ Summary : Practical Extraction and Report Language Description : 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 Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-26c0346398' 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 42
Version: 5.40.2
Release: 517.fc42
Summary: Practical Extraction and Report Language

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