[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: perl-Module-Signature-0.73-1.fc18

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-10430
2013-06-09 00:52:06
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Name        : perl-Module-Signature
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 0.73
Release     : 1.fc18
URL         : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Signature/
Summary     : CPAN signature management utilities and modules
Description :
This package contains a command line tool and module for checking and creating
SIGNATURE files for Perl CPAN distributions.

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Update Information:

This update ensures that digest modules are only loaded from absolute paths in @INC, avoiding a potential arbitrary code execution problem (CVE-2013-2145).
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Jun  7 2013 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> - 0.73-1
- Update to 0.73
  - Constrain the user-specified digest name to /^\w+\d+$/
  - Only allow loading Digest::* from absolute paths in @INC (CVE-2013-2145)
* Thu Feb 14 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.70-2
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_19_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #971096 - CVE-2013-2145 perl-Module-Signature: arbitrary code execution when verifying SIGNATURE
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=971096
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update perl-Module-Signature' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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