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This module implements the App::Packer::Backend interface, for generating
stand-alone executables, perl scripts and PAR files.
Update Perl to 5.42.3
* Mon Aug 3 2026 Jitka Plesnikova - 1.064-6 - Rebuild for Perl 5.42.3
* Mon Aug 3 2026 Jitka Plesnikova - 1.064-6 - Rebuild for Perl 5.42.3
[ 1 ] Bug #2489785 - CVE-2026-8376 perl: Perl: Heap buffer overflow when compiling regular expressions on 32-bit builds [fedora-all] [ 2 ] Bug #2506204 - CVE-2026-57432 perl: Perl: Information disclosure via integer overflow in pack/unpack operations [fedora-all]
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-475559cbb9' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
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