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Recent Entries
Tuesday 16th June 2026
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Test-MockModule to 0.185.3 in Rawhide:
Updated perl-Test-Simple to 1.302222 in Rawhide:
Add missing Changes entry
- Fix test that fails on some Windows versions due to path separators
Local Packages
Updated perl-Pod-Coverage-TrustMe to 0.002002:
Fix passing options to all_pod_coverage_ok
Updated perl-Test-MockModule to 0.185.3 as per the Fedora version
Updated perl-Test-Simple to 1.302222 as per the Fedora version
Monday 15th June 2026
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Crypt-DSA to 1.21 in F-43, F-44, Rawhide, EPEL-10.2 and EPEL-10:
Fixed key material reuse for multiple signing events (CVE-2026-12205, CWE-323)
sign() reused the DSA nonce k across signatures (r and k^-1 were cached on the key and not regenerated), allowing private-key recovery from two signatures over different messages
- Now generates a fresh nonce per signature
- Keys used to sign more than once with an affected version should be considered compromised
Updated perl-Crypt-DSA (1.17) in EPEL-8 and EPEL-9 to fix key material reuse for multiple signing events
Updated perl-Test-Simple to 1.302221 in Rawhide:
- Prevent the new EBCDIC support from breaking 5.6
Updated python-paramiko to 3.5.1 in EPEL-10:
Private key material is now explicitly 'unpadded' during decryption, removing a reliance on some lax OpenSSL behaviour and making us compatible with future Cryptography releases (GH#2490)
- This update was done because the "future Cryptography releases" landed in EL-10
Local Packages
Updated perl-Test-Simple to 1.302221 as per the Fedora version
Sunday 14th June 2026
Local Packages
Updated perl-PPIx-Regexp to 0.092:
- Remove references to the RT bug tracking system
Replace wyant@cpan.org with harryfmudd@comcast.net
- Correct documentation errors
- No functional changes
Saturday 13th June 2026
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Business-ISBN-Data to 20260613.001 in Rawhide:
- Data update for 2026-06-13
Updated perl-PPIx-QuoteLike to 0.024 in Rawhide:
- Remove references to the RT bug tracking system
Replace wyant@cpan.org with harryfmudd@comcast.net
Repackage licenses so that GitHub can find them (maybe)
Add SECURITY policy
- No functional changes
Local Packages
Updated perl-PPIx-QuoteLike to 0.024 as per the Fedora version
Friday 12th June 2026
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Business-ISBN-Data to 20260611.001 in Rawhide:
- Data update for 2026-06-11
Updated perl-Crypt-PBKDF2 to 0.261630 in F-43, F-44, Rawhide, EPEL-9, EPEL-10.2 and EPEL-10:
Change the default hash algorithm to HMAC-SHA256, and increase the default number of iterations to 600,000, in line with current OWASP recommendations (CVE-2026-9641)
Generate salts using Crypt::URandom (a strong system RNG) instead of perl's builtin rand(), which is not cryptographically secure (CVE-2026-9638)
Use a constant-time comparison in 'validate' to avoid timing attacks (CVE-2017-20240)
Local Packages
Updated perl-BDB (1.92) to rename atfork_child to bdb_atfork_child to avoid collision with perl 5.43.2+
Updated perl-Crypt-PBKDF2 to 0.261630 as per the Fedora version
Updated sendmail (8.18.2) to enable support for SMTPUTF8 (RFC 6531) and to use self-signed certificate instead of the CA bundle (Bug #2476449)
Other Entries
Local Packages refers to my local package repository at http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/