[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: perl-Module-Metadata-1.000015-1.fc18

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-15157
2013-08-22 22:35:29
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Name        : perl-Module-Metadata
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 1.000015
Release     : 1.fc18
URL         : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Metadata/
Summary     : Gather package and POD information from perl module files
Description :
This module provides a standard way to gather metadata about a .pm file
without executing unsafe code.

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Update Information:

This update clarifies the module's documentation about the code it executes, i.e. it does "eval" a module to determine its version number. Previously it said that it did not execute unsafe code.
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Aug 21 2013 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> - 1.000015-1
- Update to 1.000015
  - Change wording about safety/security to satisfy CVE-2013-1437
* Wed Aug 14 2013 Jitka Plesnikova <jplesnik at redhat.com> - 1.000014-4
- Perl 5.18 re-rebuild of bootstrapped packages
* Sat Aug  3 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.000014-3
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_20_Mass_Rebuild
* Fri Jul 12 2013 Petr Pisar <ppisar at redhat.com> - 1.000014-2
- Perl 5.18 rebuild
* Thu May  9 2013 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> - 1.000014-1
- Update to 1.000014
  - Fix reliance on recent Test::Builder
  - Make tests perl 5.6 compatible
- This release by BOBTFISH -> update source URL
* Sun May  5 2013 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> - 1.000012-1
- Update to 1.000012
  - Improved package detection heuristics
  - Fix ->contains_pod (CPAN RT#84932)
  - Fix detection of pod after __END__ (CPAN RT#79656)
- This release by ETHER -> update source URL
- Package new upstream README file
* Thu Feb 14 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.000011-2
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_19_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #996281 - CVE-2013-1437 perl-Module-Metadata: incorrectly documents that it does not execute unsafe code
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=996281
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update perl-Module-Metadata' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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