Saturday 24th February 2024
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Expect to 1.36 in F-40 and Rawhide:
Made timeouts optional and added qr// regex support
Local Packages
Updated c-ares to 1.27.0:
- This is a security, feature, and bugfix release
- Security:
Reading malformatted '/etc/resolv.conf', '/etc/nsswitch.conf' or the 'HOSTALIASES' file could result in a crash (CVE-2024-25629, https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/security/advisories/GHSA-mg26-v6qh-x48q)
- Features:
New function 'ares_queue_active_queries()' to retrieve number of in-flight queries (GH#712)
New function 'ares_queue_wait_empty()' to wait for the number of in-flight queries to reach zero (GH#710)
New 'ARES_FLAG_NO_DEFLT_SVR' for 'ares_init_options()' to return a failure if no DNS servers can be found rather than attempting to use '127.0.0.1'; this also introduces a new ares status code of 'ARES_ENOSERVER' (GH#713)
- Changes:
EDNS packet size should be 1232 as per DNS Flag Day (GH#705)
- Bugfixes:
Updated perl-Expect to 1.36 as per the Fedora version
Updated perl-Module-CoreList to 5.20240223:
- Updated for v5.39.8