PaulHowarth/Blog/2014-03-27

Thursday 27th March 2014

Fedora Project

  • Submitted a perl-MooseX-Types-Stringlike package for review; this was subsequently reviewed and approved by Petr Ĺ abata

  • Imported and built perl-MooseX-Types-Stringlike (0.002) for F-19, F-20, Rawhide and EPEL-7

  • Updated perl-YAML-LibYAML (0.41) in F-19, F-20, Rawhide and EPEL-7 to address heap-based buffer overflow when parsing YAML tags (CVE-2013-6393) and LibYAML input sanitization errors (CVE-2014-2525)

  • Updated perl-YAML-LibYAML (0.38) in EPEL-6 to address heap-based buffer overflow when parsing YAML tags (CVE-2013-6393) and LibYAML input sanitization errors (CVE-2014-2525)

  • Branched and built perl-Module-Install-AutoLicense (0.08) for EPEL-7

  • Branched and built perl-Module-Install-GithubMeta (0.26) for EPEL-7

  • Branched and built perl-Module-Install-ReadmeFromPod (0.22) for EPEL-7

  • Branched and built perl-Path-Tiny (0.052) for EPEL-7

  • Branched and built perl-Unicode-UTF8 (0.60) for EPEL-7

Local Packages

  • Updated curl to adapt tests 815 and 816 such that they work with the fix for CVE-2014-0138

  • Updated perl-File-pushd to 1.006:

    • Noted that multiple pushd objects in a lexical scope are not destroyed in a predictable order

    • Modernized Dist::Zilla configuration and repo support files

  • Updated perl-YAML-LibYAML to fix security issues as per the Fedora version


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