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🛡️ ALSA-2025:11805 — perl (CVE-2025-40909)

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

Moderate: perl security update

Perl is a high-level programming language that is commonly used for system administration utilities and web programming.

Security Fix(es):

  • perl: Perl threads have a working directory race condition where file operations may target unintended paths (CVE-2025-40909)

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 software

ALSA-2025:11805 is recorded against 26 packages.

  • perl (fixed in 4:5.26.3-423.el8_10)
  • perl-attribute-handlers (fixed in 0.99-423.el8_10)
  • perl-devel (fixed in 4:5.26.3-423.el8_10)
  • perl-devel-peek (fixed in 1.26-423.el8_10)
  • perl-devel-selfstubber (fixed in 1.06-423.el8_10)
  • perl-errno (fixed in 1.28-423.el8_10)
  • perl-extutils-embed (fixed in 1.34-423.el8_10)
  • perl-extutils-miniperl (fixed in 1.06-423.el8_10)
  • perl-interpreter (fixed in 4:5.26.3-423.el8_10)
  • perl-io (fixed in 1.38-423.el8_10)
  • perl-io-zlib (fixed in 1:1.10-423.el8_10)
  • perl-libnetcfg (fixed in 4:5.26.3-423.el8_10)
  • perl-libs (fixed in 4:5.26.3-423.el8_10)
  • perl-locale-maketext-simple (fixed in 1:0.21-423.el8_10)
  • perl-macros (fixed in 4:5.26.3-423.el8_10)
  • perl-math-complex (fixed in 1.59-423.el8_10)
  • perl-memoize (fixed in 1.03-423.el8_10)
  • perl-module-loaded (fixed in 1:0.08-423.el8_10)
  • perl-net-ping (fixed in 2.55-423.el8_10)
  • perl-open (fixed in 1.11-423.el8_10)
  • perl-pod-html (fixed in 1.22.02-423.el8_10)
  • perl-selfloader (fixed in 1.23-423.el8_10)
  • perl-test (fixed in 1.30-423.el8_10)
  • perl-tests (fixed in 4:5.26.3-423.el8_10)
Show the remaining 2 packages
  • perl-time-piece (fixed in 1.31-423.el8_10)
  • perl-utils (fixed in 5.26.3-423.el8_10)

Timeline and source

Published on 28 July 2025 and last revised on 4 February 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

access.redhat.com (Advisory)
access.redhat.com (Report)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Report)
errata.almalinux.org (Advisory)

Other advisories for this package

perl has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-07-28
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-02-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
perl 4:5.26.3-423.el8_10
perl-attribute-handlers 0.99-423.el8_10
perl-devel 4:5.26.3-423.el8_10
perl-devel-peek 1.26-423.el8_10
perl-devel-selfstubber 1.06-423.el8_10
perl-errno 1.28-423.el8_10
perl-extutils-embed 1.34-423.el8_10
perl-extutils-miniperl 1.06-423.el8_10
perl-interpreter 4:5.26.3-423.el8_10
perl-io 1.38-423.el8_10
perl-io-zlib 1:1.10-423.el8_10
perl-libnetcfg 4:5.26.3-423.el8_10
perl-libs 4:5.26.3-423.el8_10
perl-locale-maketext-simple 1:0.21-423.el8_10
perl-macros 4:5.26.3-423.el8_10
perl-math-complex 1.59-423.el8_10
perl-memoize 1.03-423.el8_10
perl-module-loaded 1:0.08-423.el8_10
perl-net-ping 2.55-423.el8_10
perl-open 1.11-423.el8_10
perl-pod-html 1.22.02-423.el8_10
perl-selfloader 1.23-423.el8_10
perl-test 1.30-423.el8_10
perl-tests 4:5.26.3-423.el8_10
perl-time-piece 1.31-423.el8_10
perl-utils 5.26.3-423.el8_10

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