PaulHowarth/Blog/2012-07-05

Thursday 5th July 2012

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-BerkeleyDB to 0.51 in Rawhide, picking up the new libdb 5.3.21:

    • Documentation updated courtesy of Mike Caron
    • Croak if attempt to freeze BerkeleyDB object (CPAN RT#69985)

    • Rework FETCHSIZE (CPAN RT#75691)

  • Rebuilt perl-Compress-Raw-Lzma for the new xz 5.1.2alpha in Rawhide

  • Updated perl-YAML-LibYAML to 0.38 in EPEL-6 and addressed various format string vulnerabilities (CVE-2012-1152, CPAN RT#46507):

    • Fix LoadFile on empty file failure (CPAN RT#54564)

    • Fix memory leaks in YAML::XS::Load() method (CPAN RT#46172)

    • Fix for broken deparse test (CPAN RT#73716)

    • Handle misbehaved tied hashes (CPAN RT#52730)

    • Handle 'get' magic

    • Added support for tied arrays and hashes
    • Don't turn on the UTF-8 flag for strings containing only US-ASCII (0x00-0x7F) characters (CPAN RT#51886)

Local Packages

  • Updated xz to 5.1.2alpha (F-16, F-17 and Rawhide only)

    • See NEWS for details

  • Rebuilt perl-BerkeleyDB for libdb 5.3.21 in Rawhide

  • Rebuilt perl-Compress-Raw-Lzma for the new xz

  • Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-Devel-GlobalDestruction, perl-IO-Compress-Lzma, perl-Mail-SPF (raising CPAN RT#78214 about t/10.00-rfc4408.t failing with Net::DNS 0.68), perl-Sub-Exporter, perl-Test-CPAN-Meta-YAML, perl-Test-Signature and perl-Unicode-MapUTF8


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