Bug#1033109: libcpan-checksums-perl: CVE-2020-16155

[Moritz Mühlenhoff]

Source: libcpan-checksums-perl
X-Debbugs-CC: team at security.debian.org
Severity: important
Tags: security

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for libcpan-checksums-perl.

CVE-2020-16155[0]:
| The CPAN::Checksums package 2.12 for Perl does not uniquely define
| signed data.

https://blog.hackeriet.no/cpan-signature-verification-vulnerabilities/
http://blogs.perl.org/users/neilb/2021/11/addressing-cpan-vulnerabilities-related-to-checksums.html
		

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-16155
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-16155

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.