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Medium ALAS2-2026-3352 1 CVE

Moderate: perl security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Jun 8, 2026 · Updated Jun 8, 2026

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-8376: Buffer overflow in Perl_study_chunk

Fixed packages 19

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 perl 4:5.16.3-299.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 perl-core 0:5.16.3-299.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 perl-CPAN 0:1.9800-299.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 perl-debuginfo 4:5.16.3-299.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 perl-devel 4:5.16.3-299.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder 1:0.28.2.6-299.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 perl-ExtUtils-Embed 0:1.30-299.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 perl-ExtUtils-Install 0:1.58-299.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 perl-IO-Zlib 1:1.10-299.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 perl-libs 4:5.16.3-299.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 perl-Locale-Maketext-Simple 1:0.21-299.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 perl-macros 4:5.16.3-299.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 perl-Module-CoreList 1:2.76.02-299.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 perl-Module-Loaded 1:0.08-299.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 perl-Object-Accessor 1:0.42-299.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 perl-Package-Constants 1:0.02-299.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 perl-Pod-Escapes 1:1.04-299.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 perl-tests 4:5.16.3-299.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 perl-Time-Piece 0:1.20.1-299.amzn2.0.4

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.3

    Perl versions before 5.40.5-RC1, from 5.41.0 before 5.42.3-RC1, from 5.43.0 before 5.43.11 have a heap buffer overflow when compiling regular expressions with a repeated fixed string on 32-bit builds

    Perl versions before 5.40.5-RC1, from 5.41.0 before 5.42.3-RC1, from 5.43.0 before 5.43.11 have a heap buffer overflow when compiling regular expressions with a repeated fixed string on 32-bit builds. Perl_study_chunk in regcomp_study.c checked the size of th…

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-8376.html