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Medium ELSA-2025-11805 1 CVE

Moderate: perl security update (Oracle Linux 8)

Published Jul 28, 2025 · Updated Jul 28, 2025

Summary

[4:5.26.3-423]
- Fix CVE-2025-40909 - Clone dirhandles without fchdir
- Fix test broken by update in zlib on s390x

Fixed packages 26

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 8 perl 4:5.26.3-423.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perl-Attribute-Handlers 0:0.99-423.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perl-devel 4:5.26.3-423.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perl-Devel-Peek 0:1.26-423.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perl-Devel-SelfStubber 0:1.06-423.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perl-Errno 0:1.28-423.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perl-ExtUtils-Embed 0:1.34-423.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perl-ExtUtils-Miniperl 0:1.06-423.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perl-interpreter 4:5.26.3-423.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perl-IO 0:1.38-423.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perl-IO-Zlib 1:1.10-423.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perl-libnetcfg 4:5.26.3-423.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perl-libs 4:5.26.3-423.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perl-Locale-Maketext-Simple 1:0.21-423.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perl-macros 4:5.26.3-423.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perl-Math-Complex 0:1.59-423.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perl-Memoize 0:1.03-423.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perl-Module-Loaded 1:0.08-423.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perl-Net-Ping 0:2.55-423.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perl-open 0:1.11-423.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perl-Pod-Html 0:1.22.02-423.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perl-SelfLoader 0:1.23-423.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perl-Test 0:1.30-423.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perl-tests 4:5.26.3-423.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perl-Time-Piece 0:1.31-423.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 perl-utils 0:5.26.3-423.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 5.9

    Perl threads have a working directory race condition where file operations may target unintended paths

    Perl threads have a working directory race condition where file operations may target unintended paths. If a directory handle is open at thread creation, the process-wide current working directory is temporarily changed in order to clone that handle for the n…