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A perl-CPAN security update has been released for Fedora 34.



SECURITY: Fedora 34 Update: perl-CPAN-2.29-1.fc34


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2022-84fd87f7eb
2022-01-12 01:15:26.632559
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Name : perl-CPAN
Product : Fedora 34
Version : 2.29
Release : 1.fc34
URL :   https://metacpan.org/release/CPAN
Summary : Query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites
Description :
The CPAN module automates or at least simplifies the make and install of
perl modules and extensions. It includes some primitive searching
capabilities and knows how to use LWP, HTTP::Tiny, Net::FTP and certain
external download clients to fetch distributions from the net.

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Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2020-16156
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Dec 16 2021 Jitka Plesnikova - 2.29-1
- 2.29 bump
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2035273 - CVE-2020-16156 perl-CPAN: Bypass of verification of signatures in CHECKSUMS files
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2035273
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-84fd87f7eb' 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 found at
  https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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