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Fedora 44 perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2 High-Risk Code Execution Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey June 25, 2026
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Explore the latest Fedora advisory addressing critical perl-IO-Compress updates to tackle various security threats efficiently.
perl-Compress-Taw-Bzip2 - Updated to 2.218 perl-IO-Compress - Updated to 2.221 - Fix CVE-2025-15649, CVE-2026-48959, CVE-2026-48961, CVE-2026-48962

Summary

This module provides a Perl interface to the bzip2 compression library.

It is used by IO::Compress::Bzip2.

Update Information:

perl-Compress-Taw-Bzip2 - Updated to 2.218 perl-IO-Compress - Updated to 2.221 - Fix CVE-2025-15649, CVE-2026-48959, CVE-2026-48961, CVE-2026-48962

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service fedora arbitrary code execution important perl-IO-Compress

Change Log

* Mon Mar 9 2026 Paul Howarth - 2.218-1 - 2.218 bump (rhbz#2445591)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2445591 - perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.218 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2445591 [ 2 ] Bug #2483254 - CVE-2026-48962 perl-IO-Compress: perl-IO-Compress: Arbitrary code execution via attacker-controlled output glob [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2483254 [ 3 ] Bug #2489171 - CVE-2025-15649 perl-IO-Compress: perl-IO-Compress: Denial of Service via malformed DOS date in zip header [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2489171 [ 4 ] Bug #2489766 - CVE-2026-48961 perl-IO-Compress: IO::Compress: Denial of Service in zipdetails CLI tool via malformed Info-ZIP Unix Extra Field [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2489766 [ 5 ] Bug #2489781 - CVE-2026-48959 perl-IO-Compress: perl-IO-Compress: CPU exhaustion via per-byte read loop in fastForward [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2489781

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-7ecfdcf0e3' 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-Compress-Raw-Bzip2
Product: Fedora 44
Version: 2.218
Release: 1.fc44
URL: https://metacpan.org/release/Compress-Raw-Bzip2
Summary: Low-level interface to bzip2 compression library

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service fedora arbitrary code execution important perl-IO-Compress

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