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Fedora 42: 2025-26c0346398 critical: perl-Devel-Cover code coverage fix

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Calendar Grey April 17, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 42's latest patch resolves CVE-2024-56406 found in perl-Devel-Cover, improving the accuracy of code coverage statistics.
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

Change Log

* Tue Apr 15 2025 Jitka Plesnikova - 1.44-5 - Rebuild for Perl 5.40.2

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2025-26c0346398 2025-04-17 18:59:47.310510+00:00 Name : perl-Devel-Cover Product : Fedora 42 Version : 1.44 Release : 5.fc42 URL : https://metacpan.org/dist/Devel-Cover Summary : Code coverage metrics for Perl Description : 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 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-Devel-Cover
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 1.44
Release: 5.fc42
Summary: Code coverage metrics for Perl

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