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I confirm that perl-Convert-ASN1-0.27-16.el8.noarch is vulnerable.
Did this package get removed because of the vulnerability? This is blocking the installation of nagios-plugins-all-2.3.3-1.el8.x86_64 which depends on nagios-plugins-ssl_validity-2.3.3-1.el8.x86_64 which depends on perl-Crypt-X509-0.51-19.el8.noarch which depends on perl(Convert::ASN1) >= 0.19. We really need this package back ASAP.
This package was removed from EPEL. But for a different reason. This package was added into RHEL 8.2 and thus removed from EPEL because EPEL cannot provide the same packages (bug #1833568).
Whilst you wait for CentOS 8.2 to be released, you can find the old EPEL package here: https://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/epel/8.1/Everything/x86_64/Packages/p/perl-Convert-ASN1-0.27-16.el8.noarch.rpm
Thanks for this info Paul! The same thing already happened with zstd, it's a pity that this breaks so many dependent programs on CentOS.