Bug 2453132

Summary:	CVE-2026-4176 perl: Perl: Multiple vulnerabilities due to an outdated vendored zlib library [fedora-42]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Marco Benatto <mbenatto>
Component:	perl	Assignee:	Jitka Plesnikova <jplesnik>
Status:	ON_QA ---	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	42	CC:	iarnell, jplesnik, kasal, mmaslano, mspacek, perl-devel, ppisar, psabata, spotrh
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Whiteboard:	{"flaws": ["787e088a-26a9-461e-8164-b0f500490453"]}
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Bug Blocks:	2452916

Description Marco Benatto 2026-03-30 18:43:05 UTC

Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2026-03-31 09:42:21 UTC

FEDORA-2026-58dd426edd (perl-5.40.4-520.fc42, perl-Devel-Cover-1.44-7.fc42, and 1 more) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 42.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-58dd426edd

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2026-04-01 02:17:41 UTC

FEDORA-2026-58dd426edd has been pushed to the Fedora 42 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2026-58dd426edd`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-58dd426edd

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.