RLSA-2025:17162

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    RLSA-2025:17162

    Published: 10 Oct 2025Last Modified: 10 Oct 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2025-40928

    Summary: Moderate: perl-JSON-XS security update

    Details: This module converts Perl data structures to JSON and vice versa. Its primary goal is to be correct and its secondary goal is to be fast. To reach the latter goal it was written in C. Security Fix(es): * JSON-XS: integer buffer overflow causing a segfault when parsing crafted JSON (CVE-2025-40928) 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.

    References: https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2025:17162, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2393878

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: perl-JSON-XS

    Purl: pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/perl-JSON-XS?distro=rocky-linux-9-6&epoch=1

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1:4.04-1.el9_6

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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