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A perl-CPAN security update has been released for Fedora 38.



[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: perl-CPAN-2.36-1.fc38


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-46924e402a
2023-07-09 02:17:58.914489
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Name : perl-CPAN
Product : Fedora 38
Version : 2.36
Release : 1.fc38
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-2023-31484 CPAN.pm before 2.35 does not verify TLS
certificates when downloading distributions over HTTPS. CPAN 2.35 - Add
verify_SSL=>1 to HTTP::Tiny to verify https server identity
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ChangeLog:

* Mon May 15 2023 Jitka Plesnikova [jplesnik@redhat.com] - 2.36-1
- 2.36 bump
* Tue May 2 2023 Jitka Plesnikova [jplesnik@redhat.com] - 2.35-1
- 2.35 bump
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2218667 - CVE-2023-31484 perl: CPAN.pm before 2.35 does not verify TLS certificates when downloading distributions over HTTPS
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2218667
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-46924e402a' 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
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