openSUSE Leap 16.0 Perl-Crypt-PasswdMD5 Important Security Fix 2026-21137-1

This update for perl-Crypt-PasswdMD5 fixes the following issues:

Changes in perl-Crypt-PasswdMD5:

- updated to 1.430.0 (1.43)

see /usr/share/doc/packages/perl-Crypt-PasswdMD5/Changelog.ini

[V 1.43]

Date=2026-05-23T08:14:00

Deploy.Action=Upgrade

Deploy.Reason=Security

Comments= <

- Accept pull request from Paul Howarth to replace use of the cryptographically

weak rand() function with the much stronger Crypt::URandom::urandom().

With thanx. CVE-2026-6659 bsc#1264705

- Add Encode, Exporter, ExtUtils::MakeMaker to Makefile.PL.

- Add files AI_POLICY.md & SECURITY.md.

- Delete file LICENSE.

- Add file LICENSE-GPL-3 with the latest version from https://fsf.org/.

EOT

Patch instructions:

To install this openSUSE security update use the suse recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 16.0

zypper in -t patch...