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Fedora 43 perl-CryptX Critical Buffer Overflow CVE-2026-41565 Advisory

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Calendar Grey June 7, 2026
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Critical update for perl-CryptX in Fedora 43 addresses buffer overflow issue allowing arbitrary code execution.
Fixes CVE-2026-41565

Summary

This Perl library provides a cryptography based on LibTomCrypt library.

Update Information:

Fixes CVE-2026-41565

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-2026-2ef4c0c642' 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 43
Version: 0.089
Release: 1.fc43
Summary: Cryptographic toolkit

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