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Fedora 44 perl-CryptX High Stack Overflow Resolution 2026-2158c96917

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Calendar Grey June 7, 2026
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fixes a stack buffer overflow in perl-CryptX impacting Fedora 44 with critical risk of arbitrary code execution.
Fixes CVE-2026-41565

Summary

This Perl library provides a cryptography based on LibTomCrypt library.

Update Information:

Fixes CVE-2026-41565

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora critical arbitrary code execution perl-CryptX stack buffer

Change Log

* Sun May 10 2026 Xavier Bachelot - 0.089-1 - Update to 0.089 (RHBZ#2468592)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2482788 - CVE-2026-41565 perl-CryptX: perl-CryptX: Stack buffer overflow allows arbitrary code execution via a crafted authentication tag. [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2482788

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-2158c96917' 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-CryptX
Product: Fedora 44
Version: 0.089
Release: 1.fc44
URL: https://metacpan.org/release/CryptX
Summary: Cryptographic toolkit

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora critical arbitrary code execution perl-CryptX stack buffer

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