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Medium RLSA-2025:8432 1 CVE

Moderate: perl-CPAN security update

Published Jul 29, 2025 · Updated Jul 29, 2025

Summary

The CPAN module is a tool to query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites.

Security Fix(es):

* perl-CPAN: Bypass of verification of signatures in CHECKSUMS files (CVE-2020-16156)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 8 perl-CPAN 0:2.18-402.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2035273