[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: perl-Module-Metadata-1.000015-1.fc19

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-15196
2013-08-22 22:36:52
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Name        : perl-Module-Metadata
Product     : Fedora 19
Version     : 1.000015
Release     : 1.fc19
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
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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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