PaulHowarth/Blog/2026-07

Paul's Blog Entries for July 2026

Wednesday 1st July 2026

Fedora Project

  • Updated miniz to 3.1.2 in Rawhide:

    • Fix central directory offset overflow when reading zip file header
    • Add tdefl_write_image_to_png_file_in_memory_ex parameter validation

    • Add fuzz targets for ZIP validation, writing, and compression APIs
    • Support cmake 4

    • Guard against code_len==0 infinite loop in tinfl_decompress

Thursday 2nd July 2026

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-YAML-LibYAML to 0.909.0 in Rawhide:

    • OOP interface test: Do not crash on missing JSON::PP dependency

    • OOP interface: Fix for quadmath builds of perl
    • Add YAML::XS::LibYAML back to list of provided modules

    • OOP interface: Add boolean option

Local Packages

  • Updated nmap (7.92) to fix extension header parsing CVE-2026-58058

  • Updated perl-YAML-LibYAML to 0.909.0 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated unrar to 7.23

Friday 3rd July 2026

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Sendmail-PMilter to 1.28 in Rawhide:

  • Updated perl-Crypt-DSA to 1.22 in F-43, F-44, Rawhide, EPEL-10.2 and EPEL-10:

    • Hardening: Use a fresh, independent CSPRNG witness every round
    • Security fix: Modulo bias in key generation (CVE-2026-14570); an attack with hundreds of signatures could lead to full private-key compromise; keys should be considered compromised and new keys should be generated

  • Updated perl-Crypt-DSA (1.17) in EPEL-8 and EPEL-9 to backport improvements from version 1.22

  • Updated perl-IO-Compress to 2.222 in Rawhide:

    • Tag ':constants' no longer exports all constants (GH#64, GH#78)

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-IO-Compress to 2.222 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-Sendmail-PMilter to 1.28 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-YAML-LibYAML to 0.910.0:

    • OOP interface: Fix default boolean option (missing default lead to random default on some architectures) (GH#133)

Tuesday 7th July 2026

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Crypt-PasswdMD5 to 1.45 in Rawhide:

    • Replace text of LICENSE file with Perl_5 license generated using Software::License

  • Updated perl-String-Util to 1.36 in Rawhide:

    • Updated POD/README
    • Make trim() more robust

  • Updated perl-Tree-DAG_Node to 1.38 in Rawhide:

    • Replace LICENCE file content with the Perl_5 license from Software::License

    • Add AI_POLICY.md file

    • Modernize MANIFEST.SKIP again

  • Updated perltidy to 20260705 in Rawhide (see CHANGES.md for details)

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-IO-Compress to 2.223:

    • Fix typo in Makefile.PL (GH#79)

  • Updated perl-Perl-Tidy to 20260705 as per the Fedora perltidy package

  • Updated perl-Tree-DAG_Node to 1.38 as per the Fedora version

Wednesday 8th July 2026

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Crypt-DSA to 1.24 in Rawhide:

    • Standardize on Crypt::SysRandom and drop the Crypt::URandom dependency

    • Make CVE tests optional
  • Updated perl-Crypt-PasswdMD5 to 1.46 in Rawhide:

    • Regenerate LICENSE file using latest Software::License to get current GPLv1 license text

  • Updated perl-Tree-DAG_Node to 1.39 in Rawhide:

    • Regenerate LICENSE using latest Software::License (GH#1)

Local Packages

  • Updated c-ares to 1.34.8:

  • Bugfixes:
    • Revert "Mark parameters in callbacks as const", which shipped in 1.34.7
      • Changing the parameter types of the 'ares_callback', 'ares_host_callback' and 'ares_nameinfo_callback' function pointer typedefs was an unintended API break: existing applications with the historical non-const callback signatures no longer compiled, particularly in C++ where function pointer types must match exactly

      • The read-only nature of the callback parameters is now documented instead (GH#1244)

  • Changes for 1.34.7:
  • Security:
  • Changes:
    • ares_getaddrinfo(): Handle a NULL node per POSIX and implement ARES_AI_PASSIVE (GH#1186)

    • Mark parameters in callbacks as const (GH#1060)

    • Correct ARES_CLASS_HESOID misspelling to ARES_CLASS_HESIOD (GH#1092)

  • Bugfixes:
    • Fix sticky server recovery when all servers have failures (GH#1192)

    • Fix UDP socket exhaustion regression: retire connections per-connection, not via server failure count (GH#1197)

    • Guard DNS record binary length overflow (GH#1168)

    • Prevent integer overflow in allocation size calculations (GH#1147)

    • Prevent overflow in ares_array allocation size calculations (GH#1117)

    • Prevent integer overflow in buffer size calculation (GH#1116)

    • Add overflow checks to ares_buf_ensure_space() (GH#1094)

    • Skip name compression offsets beyond the 14-bit pointer limit (GH#1159)

    • ares_dns_parse: Reject name compression in RDATA where not permitted (RFC 3597) (GH#1190)

    • ares_dns_parse: Reject responses with more than one OPT record (RFC 6891) (GH#1189)

    • Discard oversized UDP datagrams instead of truncating the length frame (GH#1161)

    • Route numeric config parsing through range-checked ares_str_parse_uint (GH#1158)

    • Replace atoi-based port parsing with validated helper (GH#1097)

    • Defer TCP connection error handling until DNS responses are parsed (GH#1138)

    • Prevent undefined-behaviour left shift in ares_calc_query_timeout() (GH#1151)

    • Use unsigned type for ares_round_up_pow2_u64 to avoid undefined behaviour (GH#1107)

    • Fix undefined behaviour in ares_buf_replace() pointer arithmetic (GH#1099)

    • ares_array: Reset offset when array becomes empty (GH#1165)

    • ares_iface_ips: Add ARES_IFACE_IP_NONE zero enum value (GH#1187)

    • ares_sysconfig_files: Recognize AIX netsvc.conf bind4/local4 tokens (GH#1188)

    • Use safe string construction in Windows sysconfig join path (GH#1143)

    • Fix zero-length RAW_RR losing type metadata during parsing (GH#1129)

    • Fix RAW_RR type tostr/fromstr roundtrip mismatch (GH#1123)

    • Fix NULL dereference for ifa netmask (GH#1120)

    • adig: Fix negated option prefix parsing (GH#1135)

    • Use UnregisterWaitEx to prevent use-after-free on Win32 (GH#1111)

    • Add NULL check after ares_malloc_zero in Windows UTF8 conversion (GH#1121)

    • Fix NULL dereference after ares_malloc_zero in Win32 IOCP event add (GH#1132)

    • Fix microsecond overflow in ares_queue_wait_empty timeout (GH#1122)

    • Fix NULL dereference in ares_buf_replace() on NULL buf (GH#1124)

    • Initialize *read_bytes in ares_socket_recvfrom() (GH#1125)

    • Fix memory leak of binbuf in ares_buf_parse_dns_binstr_int (GH#1126)

    • Fix memory leak of qcache entry on key allocation failure (GH#1127)

    • Fix memory leak of buf in ares_dns_multistring_combined() on OOM (GH#1110)

    • Fix memory leaks on error paths in two functions (GH#1109)

    • Fix memory leak of buckets in ares_htable_dict_keys() error path (GH#1108)

    • Fix memory leak of bucket->key in ares_htable_dict_insert error path (GH#1105)

    • Fix additional memory leaks (GH#1078, GH#1091)

    • Prevent corrupt addrinfo nodes on sockaddr allocation failure (GH#1112)

    • Fix two logic bugs in DNS cookie handling (GH#1103)

    • Fix linked list INSERT_BEFORE corruption and array insertdata_first ordering (GH#1101)

    • Fix HASH_IDX macro missing parentheses (GH#1128)

    • Fix malloc(0) in ares_htable_all_buckets on empty table (GH#1131)

    • Fix wrong sizeof in QNX confstr() call truncating domain names (GH#1130)

    • Clear probe pending flag after timeout (GH#1059)

    • Fix incorrect check for empty wide string (GH#1064)

    • Handle strdup failure (GH#1077)

    • doc: Reference ares_free_string(), not ares_free() (GH#1084)

  • Updated perl-DBI to 1.650:

    • Set a hard limit of 99999 on '?' placeholders (CVE-2026-14739)

    • Fix out-of-bounds read in preparse of SQL that starts with a comment (CVE-2026-14740)

    • Fix code injection via Profile DSN attribute or DBI_PROFILE variable (CVE-2026-14380)

    • Update dbipport.h to Devel::PPPort-3.73

    • Require Test::More 0.96 (tests will otherwise fail on pristine perl-5.12)

  • Updated perl-Mail-Sendmail to 0.83:

    • Strip CR/LF from header values, to prevent insertion of rogue headers (GH#11, CVE-2026-13092)

    • Switched to a new test Sendmail server for t/original.t, as the old one was no longer accepting connections

  • Updated perl-Tree-DAG_Node to 1.39 as per the Fedora version

Thursday 9th July 2026

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Module-CPANTS-Analyse (0.99) in EPEL-8 to use relative symlinks rather than absolute symlinks in test (GH#51), which fixes FTBFS with perl-Archive-Tar-2.30-2.el8_10 onwards

  • Updated perl-Perl-Critic (1.156) in F-44 to run tests with LANG=en_US.UTF-8 to fix pod spelling test with recent update for hunspell-en dictionary

  • Updated perl-Sereal-Decoder, perl-Sereal-Encoder and perl-Sereal to 5.007 in Rawhide:

    • Use $Config{ccflags} to compile zstd with, which should fix AIX

  • Updated perl-Unicode-UTF8 to 0.72 in Rawhide:

    • read_utf8() now takes a single-pass fast path on PerlIO fast-gets layers, validating/copying/counting straight out of the layer buffer (up to ~11% faster on multibyte-heavy input; see benchmarks/)

    • Fixed read_utf8() on non-buffered handles stranding the trailing incomplete sequence that was read to satisfy the requested length: the pending bytes are now pushed back with PerlIO_unread() so the following read sees them, matching decode_utf8() when drained to end of file

  • I added a patch to avoid trying to use 64-bit SSE2 on ix86 (GH#14)

  • Updated proftpd to 1.3.9c in F-43, F-44, Rawhide, EPEL-10.2 and EPEL-10:

    • ExecEnviron values not passed due to regression since 1.3.8d (GH#2135)

    • Stack buffer overflow in MLSD/MLST handling for long path names (GH#2146)

    • MaxTransfersPerUser no longer enforces configured limits (GH#2158)

    • AdminControlsACLs for config, get actions not honoured as they should be (GH#2163)

    • Memcached/Redis-cached JSON TLS session/OCSP entries decoded into fixed buffers without bounds checking (GH#2166)

    • RewriteMap unescape builtin use causes one-byte out-of-bounds write, fails to reject illegal characters (GH#2173)

    • SQL group name lookup concatenates client-provided group names without escaping (GH#2188)

    • Authenticated SFTP sessions can overflow the SFTP packet buffer (GH#2190)

    • Default Controls socket ACLs unintentionally allow all users access for sending Controls requests (GH#2210)

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-DateTime-TimeZone to 2.69:

    • This release is based on version 2026c of the Olson database
    • Contemporary changes for Alberta, CA and Morocco
  • Updated perl-Unicode-UTF8 to 0.72 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated proftpd to 1.3.9c as per the Fedora version

  • Updated proftpd (rc) to 1.3.10rc3:

    • ExecEnviron values not passed due to regression since 1.3.8d (GH#2135)

    • FTP TYPE command silently ignores invalid format-control argument instead of returning an error (GH#2141)

    • Stack buffer overflow in MLSD/MLST handling for long path names (GH#2146)

    • MaxTransfersPerUser no longer enforces configured limits (GH#2158)

    • AdminControlsACLs for config, get actions not honoured as they should be (GH#2163)

    • Memcached/Redis-cached JSON TLS session/OCSP entries decoded into fixed buffers without bounds checking (GH#2166)

    • RewriteMap unescape builtin use causes one-byte out-of-bounds write, fails to reject illegal characters (GH#2173)

    • SITE RMDIR command from mod_site_misc does not honour PathAllowFilter, PathDenyFilter as expected (GH#2175)

    • SFTP SETSTAT, FSETSTAT requests do not honour PathAllowFilter, PathDenyFilter as expected (GH#2180)

    • SQL group name lookup concatenates client-provided group names without escaping (GH#2188)

    • Authenticated SFTP sessions can overflow the SFTP packet buffer (GH#2190) & Implement SFTP copy-data extension (GH#2198)

    • Default Controls socket ACLs unintentionally allow all users access for sending Controls requests (GH#2210)

  • I added use of memcached when running the API tests, lest the memcached tests would fail

Friday 10th July 2026

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Sereal-Decoder to 5.008 in Rawhide:

    • Decoder now supports 'thaw_allow_classes' and 'thaw_deny_action' to control thaw callbacks during decoding

  • Updated perl-Sereal-Encoder to 5.008 in Rawhide:

    • Released to match Decoder version

  • Updated perl-Sereal to 5.008 in Rawhide:

    • Decoder now supports 'thaw_allow_classes' and 'thaw_deny_action' to control thaw callbacks during decoding

Monday 13th July 2026

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-CPAN-Requirements-Dynamic to 0.003 in Rawhide:

    • Avoid undefinedness warning in config_defined

  • Updated perl-Test-Synopsis to 0.18 in Rawhide:

    • Fix: =for test_synopsis directives are now applied regardless of their position relative to the SYNOPSIS code block (GH#20, regression since 0.14)

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-CPAN-Requirements-Dynamic to 0.003 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-Test-Synopsis to 0.18 as per the Fedora version

Tuesday 14th July 2026

Fedora Project

  • Updated geoipupdate to 8.0.0 in Rawhide:

    • BREAKING CHANGE: 'geoipupdate' stops updating on the first error

    • 'NewUpdater' in the unexported 'internal/geoipupdate' package no longer mutates 'http.DefaultTransport' when a proxy is configured; the CLI is the only caller, so there is no user-visible behaviour change (GH#488)

    • Do not retry proxy CONNECT 4xx errors; these are now treated as permanent failures

  • Updated perl-DBD-CSV to 0.64 in Rawhide:

    • Next version will require perl-5.12, following DBI

  • Updated perl-Unicode-UTF8 to 0.74 in Rawhide:

    • Added slurp_utf8($filename), which reads an entire file and returns its contents decoded from UTF-8 as a character string

    • Added support for older MSVC C compilers by using __inline in place of the C99 inline keyword on pre-Visual Studio 2015 builds

    • Fixed SSE2 detection to only enable the SIMD implementation on 64-bit x86 targets, which prevents unsupported SSE2 code from being selected on 32-bit x86 builds (GH#14)

  • Updated perl-YAML-Syck to 1.47 in F-43, F-44, Rawhide, EPEL-9, EPEL-10.2 and EPEL-10:

  • Security:
    • Fix four libsyck memory-safety CVEs reachable from the default YAML::Syck::Load() path on untrusted input with no special flags (GH#213)

      • CVE-2026-57075 (CWE-125): Out-of-bounds read in the base64 decoder caused by signed-char indexing of the decode table on !!binary input

      • CVE-2026-57076 (CWE-416): Use-after-free of an anchor key string shared between the node and the anchors table

      • CVE-2026-57077 (CWE-125): One-byte out-of-bounds read in the lexer newline scan during block-scalar parsing (incomplete-fix follow-on to CVE-2025-11683)

      • CVE-2026-13713 (CWE-416/CWE-415): Use-after-free / double-free of an anchor node on anchor redefinition, a remote-crash DoS from a 7-byte input

    • Harden syck_base64dec() to bounds-check each read so it cannot run past a non-NUL-terminated input buffer (defense-in-depth for callers passing raw buffers; GH#213)

  • Bug Fixes:
    • Fix: Enforce $MaxDepth on Load to prevent C-stack exhaustion from deeply nested YAML/JSON input; YAML::Syck and JSON::Syck Load now default to 512, matching Dump (GH#204)

    • Fix: Emit YAML canonical forms (.nan, .inf, -.inf) for NaN/Inf values in Dump so they roundtrip with ImplicitTyping instead of reloading as plain strings (GH#201)

  • Maintenance:
    • CI: add an AddressSanitizer job that builds the XS with -fsanitize=address and runs the suite plus the CVE trigger inputs to catch libsyck memory-safety defects; de-pin the libasan version so it tracks the runner's GCC (GH#213)

Local Packages

  • Updated geoipupdate to 8.0.0 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-DBD-CSV to 0.64 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-DBI to 1.651:

    • Fix inverted comparisons for strings in DBI::SQL::Nano (CVE-2026-15043)

    • Document that IS NULL matches empty strings in DBI::SQL::Nano

    • Fix DBD::File to ensure that the table is not a symlink outside of f_dir (CVE-2026-15392)

    • Fix an out-of-bounds error when a statement handle has no fields but the source row is not empty (CVE-2026-60082)

    • Add an overridable upper bound $MAX_PATH_DEPTH for DBI::ProfileData (CVE-2026-60081)

  • Updated perl-Unicode-UTF8 to 0.74 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-YAML-Syck to 1.47 as per the Fedora version

Wednesday 15th July 2026

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Unicode-UTF8 to 0.75 in Rawhide:

    • Fixed slurp_utf8() leaking the file descriptor if a fatal "utf8" warning (e.g. warnings FATAL => 'utf8') was thrown while reading an ill-formed file

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Unicode-UTF8 to 0.75 as per the Fedora version

Thursday 16th July 2026

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Business-ISBN-Data to 20260715.001 in Rawhide:

    • Data update for 2026-07-15

Local Packages

  • Rebuilt ansible-collection-community-libvirt (2.3.0), bluefish (2.4.1), check (0.15.2), curl (8.21.0), davfs2 (1.7.3), dovecot (2.4.4), grepmail (5.3111), gtkwave (3.3.127), Judy (1.0.5), libgpg-error (1.61), libidn (1.44), libnet (1.3), libssh2 (1.11.1), libxml2 (2.13.9), libxslt (1.1.43), mod_fcgid (2.3.9), nmap (7.92), perl-Any-Moose (0.27), perl-Class-XSAccessor (1.19), perl-DBI (1.651), perl-Dir-Self (0.11), perl-Feature-Compat-Class (0.08), perl-HTML-Lint (2.32), perl-IO-AIO (4.81), perl-MCE (1.902), perl-MIME-tools (5.517), perl-MIME-Types (2.30) and perl-Moose (2.4000) for the Fedora_45_Mass_Rebuild

  • Updated perl-Module-CoreList to 5.20260708:

    • Updated for v5.44.0

Friday 17th July 2026

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Sereal-Decoder, perl-Sereal-Encoder and perl-Sereal to 5.009 in Rawhide:

    • Only use Perl's $Config{ccflags} when building bundled zstd on AIX/IBM toolchains, or when SEREAL_ZSTD_USE_CONFIG_CCFLAGS is set; other platforms now use the normal zstd build flags again

Local Packages

  • Rebuilt perl-Mouse (2.6.2), perl-Net-DNS (1.55), perl-Object-HashBase (0.018), perl-Perl-Critic (1.156), perl-Perl-Tidy (20260705), perl-Specio (0.53), perl-Test-InDistDir (1.112071), perl-Test-LeakTrace (0.17), perl-Type-Tiny (2.010001), perl-Types-Path-Tiny (0.006), pptp (1.10.0), proftpd (1.3.9c), rbldnsd (0.998b), sendmail (8.18.2), smbldap-tools (0.9.11) and spamass-milter (0.4.0) for the Fedora_45_Mass_Rebuild

  • Updated dovecot (2.4.4) to fix tests on 32-bit (GH#301)

Sunday 19th July 2026

Fedora Project

  • Updated bluefish to 2.4.2 in F-44, Rawhide and EPEL-10:

    • Bluefish 2.4.2 has a few new features and a few fixes
    • The most visible change is that Bluefish detects icon themes, and has built-in icon themes for "Breeze" and "Breeze-dark"; this is a big improvement for the visual integration of Bluefish on a KDE desktop
    • The most important fix is for a segfault that could occur if a filename on disk has a specific broken UTF-8 encoding
    • Some small improvements are reduced memory usage when working with 100+ files simultaneously, some translation improvements, and the <meta> author field is now configurable

  • Updated perl-Business-ISBN-Data to 20260717.001 in Rawhide:

    • Data update for 2026-07-17
  • Updated perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS to 4.43 in Rawhide:

    • Fix canonical sort: Compare by UTF-16 code units per RFC 8785 (GH#248)

    • Fix canonical sort on Perl 5.8-5.18: utf16_cmp now always attempts UTF-8 decoding instead of checking SvUTF8 flag, since older Perls may store valid UTF-8 hash keys without the flag set

    • Fix quadmath encode dropping ".0" for large floats (GH#246)

      • The .0 guard condition that suppressed appending for NV values > UV_MAX was incorrect on high-precision FP (quadmath, 128-bit long double on arm64) where %g uses fixed-point notation for values like 1.01e30

      • Guarded with #if NV_DIG < 31 to skip only on double/80-bit-ld where %g naturally uses %e for large values

Local Packages

  • Updated bluefish to 2.4.2 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS to 4.43 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-CPANfile to 0.10:

    • Merge prereqs using CPAN::Meta::Requirements (GH#1)

  • Updated perl-Net-DNS to 1.56:

Monday 20th July 2026

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-YAML to v1.320.0 in Rawhide:

    • Security: Avoid backtracking leading to exponential load time (CVE-2026-63676)

Local Packages

  • New package perl-Data-Dumper-Perltidy (0.03), useful when debugging Finance::Quote issues

  • Updated curl (8.21.0) to explicitly disable HTTP/3 support in the minimal build

  • Updated perl-YAML to v1.320.0 as per the Fedora version

Tuesday 21st July 2026

Fedora Project

  • Updated proftpd (1.3.9c) in F-43, F-44, Rawhide, EPEL-10.2 and EPEL-10 to add mod_procfs, enabled by default, to address CVE-2026-35025 (ACL bypass via /proc/self/root path prefix); this module disallows file accesses via procfs filesystems

Local Packages

  • Updated proftpd (1.3.9c and 1.3.10rc3) to add mod_procfs as per the Fedora version

Wednesday 22nd July 2026

Fedora Project

  • Updated gtkwave to 3.3.128 in Rawhide and EPEL-10:

    • Hurd compile fix
    • Update lz4 to 1.10.0

Local Packages

  • Updated gtkwave to 3.3.128 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated java-1.8.0-oracle to Java SE 8 update 501

  • Updated perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-CPANfile to 0.11:

    • Include PID in temp dir name for testing (GH#4)

  • Updated perl-Module-CoreList to 5.20260720:

    • Updated for v5.45.1

Thursday 23rd July 2026

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Clone (0.50) not to run optional tests when bootstrapping

Monday 27th July 2026

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Business-ISBN-Data to 20260724.001 in Rawhide:

    • Data update for 2026-07-24
  • Updated perl-Module-Pluggable to 6.4 in Rawhide:

    • Add a CI/CD pipeline for the first time in 26 years
    • Add the ability to make search search "strict" and only walk the given search_dirs

    • Add much more documentation to Module::Pluggable::Object

    • Make it so that you can give each search_path its own custom options

    • Finally fix spurious test failure because of already installed modules
    • Remove optional_features from Makefile.PL META_MERGE that sometimes caused installation confusion

    • Add the ability to have different sorting algorithms
    • Fix the issues with OSX extended-attributes on files
    • Clean up old stale core-lib

Local Packages

  • Rebuilt all perl-based packages for Perl 5.44 in Rawhide
  • Rebuilt bluefish (2.4.2), libxml2 (2.13.9) and libxslt (1.1.43) for the Python 3.15.0b4 ABI change in Rawhide

  • Updated dovecot (2.4.4) to obsolete dovecot-fts-xapian (PR#9) in F-45 and later builds as it is no longer maintained; included fts flatcurve is a possible replacement

  • Updated perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS to 3.64:

    • Respect output arguments in INTERFACES

    • PERL_UNUSED_VAR() the CV declared when an ALIAS or XSINTERFACE_FUNC_SET has been seen

  • Updated perl-Module-Pluggable to 6.4 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-Symbol-Util (0.0203) to run the pod spelling release test with LANG=en_US.UTF-8 to address dictionary issues

  • Updated perl-YAML to 1.321:

    • Going back to decimal version numbering to make existing comparisons like 'if $YAML::VERSION >= 1.15' work (GH#233)

Tuesday 28th July 2026

Fedora Project

  • Merged PR#5 for perl-Compress-Raw-Lzma (2.221) in Rawhide: Disable optional dependencies in RHEL

  • Merged PR#1 for perl-Module-Build-Tiny (0.053) in Rawhide: Conditionalize CPAN::Requirements::Dynamic dependency

  • Updated proftpd (1.3.8d in EPEL-9 and 1.3.6e in EPEL-8):

    • Address another avenue for SQL injection, via custom SQLUserInfo queries

    • Fix SFTP request payload length underflow calculation (GH#2115, CVE-2026-53994)

    • Fix signed integer overflow via scp file size record parser (CVE-2026-63091)

    • Fix heap buffer overflow via SFTP packet reassembly (GH#2190, CVE-2026-63090)

    • Add mod_procfs, enabled by default: this addresses CVE-2026-35025 (ACL bypass via /proc/self/root path prefix); the mod_procfs module disallows file accesses via procfs filesystems

Wednesday 29th July 2026

Local Packages

  • Updated proftpd (1.3.10rc3) to update mod_procfs to 0.3:

    • Also block access to sysfs filesystems


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