MGASA-2025-0276 - Updated perl-CPAN & perl-HTTP-Tiny packages fix security vulnerabilities. MGASA-2025-0276 - Updated perl-CPAN & perl-HTTP-Tiny packages fix security vulnerabilities Publication date: 12 Nov 2025 URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2025-0276.html Type: security Affected Mageia releases: 9 CVE: CVE-2023-31484, CVE-2023-31486 Description: CPAN.pm before 2.35 does not verify TLS certificates when downloading distributions over HTTPS. (CVE-2023-31484) HTTP::Tiny before 0.083, a Perl core module since 5.13.9 and available standalone on CPAN, has an insecure default TLS configuration where users must opt in to verify certificates. (CVE-2023-31486) References: - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31852 - https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/29/1 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-31484 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-31486 SRPMS: - 9/core/perl-CPAN-2.340.0-1.1.mga9 - 9/core/perl-HTTP-Tiny-0.82.0-1.1.mga9 . Updated perl-CPAN and perl-HTTP-Tiny address security issues with ignoring TLS certificate verification.. CVE-2023-31484, Mageia, perl-CPAN, perl-HTTP-Tiny, TLS security. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team
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