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



Fedora 34 Update: perl-Encode-3.12-460.fc34

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2021-92e07de1dd
2021-08-13 01:20:44.629632
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Name : perl-Encode
Product : Fedora 34
Version : 3.12
Release : 460.fc34
URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Encode
Summary : Character encodings in Perl
Description :
The Encode module provides the interface between Perl strings and the rest
of the system. Perl strings are sequences of characters.

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Update Information:

Fedora 33 Fixed 1984005 Fedora 34 - Fixed CVE-2021-36770 - Ensure that UTF-16
decode always includes a trailing NUL. - Replace non-ASCII apostrophes w/ \x27,
which were introduced in #155 - Addressed: find_encoding returns Internal
encoding `Unicode` is no longer a valid encoding name.
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Aug 9 2021 Jitka Plesnikova - 4:3.12-460
- 3.12 bump
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1991539 - CVE-2021-36770 perl-Encode: bug in local configuration loading allows arbitrary Perl code execution placed under the current working directory [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1991539
[ 2 ] Bug #1991658 - perl-Encode-3.12 is available
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1991658
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-92e07de1dd' 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

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