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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2016-870236238e
2016-10-12 18:56:51.960442
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Name : perl-DBD-MySQL
Product : Fedora 24
Version : 4.037
Release : 1.fc24
URL :
http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBD-mysql/
Summary : A MySQL interface for Perl
Description :
DBD::mysql is the Perl5 Database Interface driver for the MySQL database. In
other words: DBD::mysql is an interface between the Perl programming language
and the MySQL programming API that comes with the MySQL relational database
management system.
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Update Information:
Updated to the latest version; Security fix for CVE-2016-1246
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1380375 - CVE-2016-1246 perl-DBD-MySQL: Buffer overflow triggered by user
supplied data
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1380375
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update perl-DBD-MySQL' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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