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Fedora 43 perl-Crypt-Argon2 Notable Improvement CVE-2026-8463

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Calendar Grey June 5, 2026
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This advisory discusses the important update for perl-Crypt-Argon2 0.031 addressing CVE-2026-8463 in Fedora 43.
Update to 0.031 #2477035 #2481131 fixes CVE-2026-8463

Summary

This module implements the Argon2 key derivation function, which is

suitable to convert any password into a cryptographic key. This is most

often used to for secure storage of passwords but can also be used to

derive a encryption key from a password. It offers variable time and memory

costs as well as output size.

Update Information:

Update to 0.031 #2477035 #2481131 fixes CVE-2026-8463

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Change Log

* Tue May 26 2026 Charles R. Anderson - 0.031-1 - Update to 0.031 #2477035 #2481131 fixes CVE-2026-8463 * Sat Jan 17 2026 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.030-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_44_Mass_Rebuild * Tue Aug 26 2025 Charles R. Anderson - 0.030-1 - Update to 0.030

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2026-f2c746ff8e 2026-06-05 04:07:33.979975+00:00 Name : perl-Crypt-Argon2 Product : Fedora 43 Version : 0.031 Release : 1.fc43 URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Crypt-Argon2 Summary : Perl interface to the Argon2 key derivation functions Description : This module implements the Argon2 key derivation function, which is suitable to convert any password into a cryptographic key. This is most often used to for secure storage of passwords but can also be used to derive a encryption key from a password. It offers variable time and memory costs as well as output size.

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-f2c746ff8e' 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-Crypt-Argon2
Product: Fedora 43
Version: 0.031
Release: 1.fc43
URL: https://metacpan.org/release/Crypt-Argon2
Summary: Perl interface to the Argon2 key derivation functions

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