This Perl module provides a variety of constants, structure manipulators and
other functions related to socket-based networking. The values and functions
provided are useful when used in conjunction with Perl core functions such as
socket(), setsockopt() and bind(). It also provides several other support
functions, mostly for dealing with conversions of network addresses between
human-readable and native binary forms, and for hostname resolver operations.
Update Information:
2.041- BUGFIXES - Fix reuse of STRLEN len variable in pack_ip_mreq_source()
* Mon Apr 27 2026 Jitka Plesnikova
[ 1 ] Bug #2489098 - CVE-2026-12087 perl-Socket: perl-Socket: Information Disclosure due to Out-of-Bounds Read [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2489098
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-91d6cb99f7' 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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