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High ALAS2023-2026-1641 1 CVE

Important: perl-CryptX security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published May 11, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026

Ecosystem: Amazon Linux

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-41564: NOTE: https://lists.security.metacpan.org/cve-announce/msg/39209500/ NOTE: https://github.com/DCIT/perl-CryptX/security/advisories/GHSA-24c2-gp6c-24c6 NOTE: Fixed by: https://github.com/DCIT/perl-CryptX/commit/9a1dd3e0c27d68e32450be5538b864c2b115ee15 (v0.088)

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 perl-CryptX 0:0.088-2.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 perl-CryptX-debuginfo 0:0.088-2.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 perl-CryptX-debugsource 0:0.088-2.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 perl-CryptX-tests 0:0.088-2.amzn2023.0.1

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.5
    CVE-2026-41564

    CryptX versions before 0.088 for Perl do not reseed the Crypt::PK PRNG state after forking

    CryptX versions before 0.088 for Perl do not reseed the Crypt::PK PRNG state after forking. The Crypt::PK::RSA, Crypt::PK::DSA, Crypt::PK::DH, Crypt::PK::ECC, Crypt::PK::Ed25519 and Crypt::PK::X25519 modules seed a per-object PRNG state in their constructors …

    MIK CryptX libcryptx-perl libcryptx-perl Debian Ubuntu Alpine

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-41564.html