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Fedora 42 Polymake Critical Perl Update FEDORA-2026-58dd426edd

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Calendar Grey April 16, 2026
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Critical Perl update for Fedora 42 addressing multiple vulnerabilities in polymake application.
Update for Perl 5.40.4

Summary

Polymake is a tool to study the combinatorics and the geometry of convex

polytopes and polyhedra. It is also capable of dealing with simplicial

complexes, matroids, polyhedral fans, graphs, tropical objects, and so

forth.

Polymake can use various computational packages if they are installed.

Those available from Fedora are: 4ti2, azove, gfan, latte-integrale,

normaliz, qhull, Singular, TOPCOM, and vinci.

Polymake can interface with various visualization packages if they are

installed. Install one or more of the tools from the following list:

evince, geomview, graphviz, gv, and okular.

Update Information:

Update for Perl 5.40.4

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora update critical perl polymake

Change Log

* Tue Mar 31 2026 Jitka Plesnikova - 4.15-3 - Rebuild for Perl 5.40.4

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2453132 - CVE-2026-4176 perl: Perl: Multiple vulnerabilities due to an outdated vendored zlib library [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2453132

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-58dd426edd' 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: polymake
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 4.15
Release: 3.fc42
URL: https://polymake.org/
Summary: Algorithms on convex polytopes and polyhedra

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