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Fedora 44 perl-GD Critical Command Injection Threat CVE-2026-11526

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Calendar Grey June 18, 2026
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A critical update for Fedora 44 addressing a command injection flaw in perl-GD, identified as CVE-2026-11526, requiring immediate action.
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 remote access high 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

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2026-263adf0222 2026-06-19 00:59:07.048628+00:00 Name : perl-GD Product : Fedora 44 Version : 2.86 Release : 1.fc44 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-2026-263adf0222' 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 44
Version: 2.86
Release: 1.fc44
URL: https://metacpan.org/release/GD
Summary: Perl interface to the GD graphics library

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora remote access high command injection perl-GD

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