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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2018-b4f8d828cd
2018-08-06 22:49:40.938124
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Name : perl-Parallel-ForkManager
Product : Fedora EPEL 6
Version : 1.20
Release : 1.el6
URL :
https://metacpan.org/release/Parallel-ForkManager
Summary : Simple parallel processing fork manager
Description :
This module is intended for use in operations that can be done in parallel
where the number of processes to be forked off should be limited. Typical
use is a downloader which will be retrieving hundreds/thousands of files.
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Update Information:
This (finally) updates EPEL6 to a version which is free of CVE-2011-4115 (use of
an insecure temporary file).
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #751889 - CVE-2011-4115 perl-Parallel-ForkManager: insecure temporary file
usage [epel-6]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=751889
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update perl-Parallel-ForkManager' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "YUM", available at
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/...
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL 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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