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Fedora 43 perl-GD Critical Command Injection Fix CVE-2026-11526

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Calendar Grey June 18, 2026
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Critical update for Fedora fixing command injection in perl-GD due to a 2-argument open function issue.
This update fixes a command injection issue resulting from the use of the 2-argument form of open (CVE-2026-11526).

Summary

This is a auto-loadable interface module for GD, a popular library

for creating and manipulating PNG files. With this library you can

create PNG images on the fly or modify existing files.

Update Information:

This update fixes a command injection issue resulting from the use of the 2-argument form of open (CVE-2026-11526).

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora critical software update command injection perl-GD

Change Log

* Tue Jun 9 2026 Paul Howarth - 2.86-1 - Update to 2.86 - Fix command injection via 2-arg open() in _make_filehandle (CVE-2026-11526) * Tue Jun 2 2026 Paul Howarth - 2.85-1 - Update to 2.85 - Tolerate runtime TIFF decode failures in autodetect (GH#62) - Replace cpm with cpanm in github actions - Fixed a minor precedence bug in t/z_manifest.t * Sat Jan 17 2026 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.84-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_44_Mass_Rebuild * Mon Jan 5 2026 Paul Howarth - 2.84-1 - Update to 2.84 - Added Makefile.PL --with and --without options to bypass autodetection errors or upstream libgd or subsequent library errors (GH#55) - Better support MSWin32 without gdlib.pc (requires manual --options and --lib_gd_path) - Work around broken ExtUtils::PkgConfig->find (GH#61) - Fixed snprintf for newer MSVC (>= VS 2015) - Added GD::Image::supported() image types method - Added newFromTiffData() method - Fixed t/GD.t for unsupported image types - Add GIFANIM to the default since 2.0.33 (GH#56) - Honor PKG_CONFIG_PATH for finding gdlib.pc (GH#57) - Add demos/png2jpeg.pl - Don't disable XPM support if GD config doesn't explicitly require -lX11 - Use %{make_build} and %{make_install}

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2026-63831abaee 2026-06-19 01:08:57.989164+00:00 Name : perl-GD Product : Fedora 43 Version : 2.86 Release : 1.fc43 URL : https://metacpan.org/release/GD Summary : Perl interface to the GD graphics library Description : This is a auto-loadable interface module for GD, a popular library for creating and manipulating PNG files. With this library you can create PNG images on the fly or modify existing files.

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-63831abaee' 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-GD
Product: Fedora 43
Version: 2.86
Release: 1.fc43
URL: https://metacpan.org/release/GD
Summary: Perl interface to the GD graphics library

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Topics Covered

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