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Fedora 40: perl-Devel-Cover moderate: fix heap overflow issue

Fix CVE-2024-56406. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2025-8445f115f6 2025-04-30 01:59:13.913476+00:00 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : perl-Devel-Cover Product : Fedora 40 Version : 1.40 Release : 9.fc40 URL : https://metacpan.org/dist/Devel-Cover Summary : Code coverage metrics for Perl Description : This module provides code coverage metrics for Perl. Code coverage metrics describe how thoroughly tests exercise code. By using Devel::Cover you can discover areas of code not exercised by your tests and determine which tests to create to increase coverage. Code coverage can be considered as an indirect measure of quality. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Fix CVE-2024-56406 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue Apr 15 2025 Jitka Plesnikova - 1.40-9 - Rebuild for Perl 5.38.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #2359474 - CVE-2024-56406 perl: Perl 5.34, 5.36, 5.38 and 5.40 are vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow when transliterating non-ASCII bytes [fedora-40] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2359474 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-8445f115f6' 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 All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be foundat https://fedoraproject.org/security/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list -- This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. To unsubscribe send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Do not reply to spam, report it: . Patch for Perl memory overflow impacting Fedora 40 to enhance test coverage reports. Apply the update immediately!. Fedora 40, Perl module, heap overflow, code coverage. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

Apr 30, 2025 Fedora