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Fedora 42 perl-Crypt-URandom Key Memory Overflow Resolution 2026

Linuxsecurity •LinuxSecurity Advisories • March 4, 2026

This Module is intended to provide an interface to the strongest available source of non-blocking randomness on the current platform. Update Information : This release fixes CVE-2026-2474 (a heap buffer overflow) and handling failed read syscalls.

This Module is intended to provide an interface to the strongest available

source of non-blocking randomness on the current platform.

This release fixes CVE-2026-2474 (a heap buffer overflow) and handling failed read syscalls.

* Mon Feb 23 2026 Petr Pisar - 0.55-1 - 0.55 bump (CVE-2026-2474, bug #2440312)

[ 1 ] Bug #2440306 - CVE-2026-2474 crypt-urandom: Crypt::URandom for Perl is vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow in the XS function crypt_urandom_getrandom()

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-b0bf6e9c9b' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

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Fedora perl-Crypt-URandom Heap Buffer Overflow Fix Released Fedora has released updates for the perl-Crypt-URandom module to address a heap buffer overflow vulnerability identified as CVE-2026-2474. This vulnerability affects the module's ability to handle failed read syscalls, potentially compromising the randomness source on the platform. The updates were made available on February 23, 2026, by Petr Pisar. 2 sources 18

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Fedora 42 perl-Crypt-URandom Key Memory Overflow Resolution 2026

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