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Fedora 43: Critical Update for perl-Catalyst-Authentication-Credential-HTTP

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Calendar Grey September 23, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest Fedora 43 patch tackles CVE-2025-40920 by utilizing Crypt::SysRandom to enhance security for nonce generation.
This update upgrade the package to version 1.019

Summary

This module lets you use HTTP authentication with

Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication. Both basic and digest authentication are

currently supported.

Update Information:

This update upgrade the package to version 1.019. This version fixes CVE-2025-40920 by using Crypt::SysRandom to generate nonces instead of Data::UUID.

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora HTTP authentication nonces cve-2025-40920 crypt::sysrandom

Change Log

* Sun Aug 31 2025 Emmanuel Seyman - 1.019-1 - Update to 1.019 - Rework dependencies - Switch build system

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2025-6df5ab0b98 2025-09-23 00:15:09.580229+00:00 Name : perl-Catalyst-Authentication-Credential-HTTP Product : Fedora 43 Version : 1.019 Release : 1.fc43 URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Catalyst-Authentication-Credential-HTTP Summary : HTTP Basic and Digest authentication for Catalyst Description : This module lets you use HTTP authentication with Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication. Both basic and digest authentication are currently supported.

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-6df5ab0b98' 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-Catalyst-Authentication-Credential-HTTP
Product: Fedora 43
Version: 1.019
Release: 1.fc43
URL: https://metacpan.org/release/Catalyst-Authentication-Credential-HTTP
Summary: HTTP Basic and Digest authentication for Catalyst

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora HTTP authentication nonces cve-2025-40920 crypt::sysrandom

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