Mageia 7: MGASA-2020-0255 Critical: Perl Security Update
mageia
June 10, 2020
This update from 5.28.2 to 5.28.3 fixes bugs several bugs the RPM package manager
Summary
This update from 5.28.2 to 5.28.3 fixes bugs several bugs the RPM package
manager.
- Update to 5.23.3
(See https://metacpan.org/release/XSAWYERX/perl-5.28.3/view/pod/perldelta.pod
for release notes)
- Security release fixes CVE-2020-10543, CVE-2020-10878 and CVE-2020-12723
- Work around a glibc bug in caching LC_MESSAGES (GH#17081)
- Fix POSIX:setlocale() documentation
- Prevent from an integer overflow in POSIX::SigSet()
- Fix thread-safety of IO::Handle (GH#14816)
- Close :unix PerlIO layers properly (bug #987118)
- Fix counting a recursion limit when matching in a postponed eval
(GH#17490)
- Fix sorting tied arrays (GH#17496)
- Fix a spurious warning about a multidimensional syntax (GH#16535)
- Normalize "#!/perl" shebangs in the tests
- Fix a warning about an uninitialized value in B::Deparse (GH#17537)
- Fix Time-Local tests to pass after year 2019 (CPAN RT#124787)
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26715
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-10543
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-10878
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-12723
Topics Covered
Resolution
SRPMS
- 7/core/perl-5.28.3-2.mga7
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Publication date: 10 Jun 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0255.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-10543,
CVE-2020-10878,
CVE-2020-12723
Topics Covered
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