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Release perl-URI-5.27-3.el10_2.1 ALSA-2026:84587

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
perl
Domain
security

Research direction

The issue describes a Perl URI hostname encoding vulnerability and names the affected package, perl-URI-5.27-3.el10_2.1.noarch. Start by following the linked CVE-2026-19953 reference and locating the package source and its security update process; neither is identified here. Done means the reported Unicode normalization bypass is addressed in the affected package, but this issue gives no implementation or verification steps.

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Description

perl-URI security update
Severity: Moderate
Description
This module implements the URI class. Objects of this class represent "Uniform Resource Identifier references" as specified in RFC 2396 (and updated by RFC 2732).

Security Fix(es):

  • URI: URI (for Perl): Security bypass due to incorrect hostname encoding via missing Unicode normalization (CVE-2026-19953)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Affected packages:
perl-URI-5.27-3.el10_2.1.noarch
perl-URI-5.27-3.el10_2.1.noarch
perl-URI-5.27-3.el10_2.1.noarch
perl-URI-5.27-3.el10_2.1.noarch
perl-URI-5.27-3.el10_2.1.noarch

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