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High RHSA-2025:17430 1 CVE

Red Hat Security Advisory: perl-JSON-XS security update

Published Oct 8, 2025 · Updated Jun 30, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 9.4 EUS rhel_eus:9.4::crb perl-JSON-XS 1:4.03-5.el9_4.1
Red Hat · RHEL 9.4 EUS rhel_eus:9.4::crb perl-JSON-XS-debuginfo 1:4.03-5.el9_4.1
Red Hat · RHEL 9.4 EUS rhel_eus:9.4::crb perl-JSON-XS-debugsource 1:4.03-5.el9_4.1

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.5
    CVE-2025-40928

    JSON::XS before version 4.04 for Perl has an integer buffer overflow causing a segfault when parsing crafted JSON, enabling denial-of-service attacks or other unspecified impact

    JSON::XS before version 4.04 for Perl has an integer buffer overflow causing a segfault when parsing crafted JSON, enabling denial-of-service attacks or other unspecified impact

    MLEHMANN JSON::XS libjson-xs-perl perl-JSON-XS Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux

References

  • article
    https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2393878
  • advisory
    https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2025/rhsa-2025_17430.json
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-40928
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40928
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-40928
  • article
    https://metacpan.org/release/MLEHMANN/JSON-XS-4.03/source/XS.xs#L256
  • article
    https://security.metacpan.org/patches/J/JSON-XS/4.03/CVE-2025-40928-r1.patch