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Fedora alert FEDORA-2013-15196 (perl-Module-Metadata)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: perl-Module-Metadata-1.000015-1.fc19
Date:  Fri, 30 Aug 2013 23:00:09 +0000
Message-ID:  <20130830230009.4FA3D21A2A@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2013-15196 2013-08-22 22:36:52 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : perl-Module-Metadata Product : Fedora 19 Version : 1.000015 Release : 1.fc19 URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Metadata/ Summary : Gather package and POD information from perl module files Description : This module provides a standard way to gather metadata about a .pm file without executing unsafe code. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update clarifies the module's documentation about the code it executes, i.e. it does "eval" a module to determine its version number. Previously it said that it did not execute unsafe code. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Aug 21 2013 Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> - 1.000015-1 - Update to 1.000015 - Change wording about safety/security to satisfy CVE-2013-1437 * Wed Aug 14 2013 Jitka Plesnikova <jplesnik@redhat.com> - 1.000014-4 - Perl 5.18 re-rebuild of bootstrapped packages * Sat Aug 3 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.000014-3 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_20_Mass_Rebuild * Fri Jul 12 2013 Petr Pisar <ppisar@redhat.com> - 1.000014-2 - Perl 5.18 rebuild -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #996281 - CVE-2013-1437 perl-Module-Metadata: incorrectly documents that it does not execute unsafe code https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=996281 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update perl-Module-Metadata' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-...


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