ALAS2022-2022-072

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-16156  

A flaw was found in the way the perl-CPAN performed verification of package signatures stored in CHECKSUMS files. A malicious or compromised CPAN server used by a user, or a man-in-the-middle attacker, could use this flaw to bypass signature verification. (CVE-2020-16156)

ALAS2022-2022-072


Amazon Linux 2022 Security Advisory: ALAS-2022-072
Advisory Release Date: 2022-05-18 00:28 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2022-05-19 18:19 Pacific
Severity: Medium
References: CVE-2020-16156 

Issue Overview:

A flaw was found in the way the perl-CPAN performed verification of package signatures stored in CHECKSUMS files. A malicious or compromised CPAN server used by a user, or a man-in-the-middle attacker, could use this flaw to bypass signature verification. (CVE-2020-16156)


Affected Packages:

perl-CPAN


Issue Correction:
Run dnf update --releasever=2022.0.20220518 perl-CPAN to update your system.

New Packages:
noarch:
    perl-CPAN-2.34-1.amzn2022.noarch
    perl-CPAN-tests-2.34-1.amzn2022.noarch

src:
    perl-CPAN-2.34-1.amzn2022.src