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High RHSA-2025:7500 1 CVE

Red Hat Security Advisory: perl security update

Published May 14, 2025 · Updated Sep 1, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 120

ReleasePackageFixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl 4:5.40.2-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Attribute-Handlers 0:1.03-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-AutoLoader 0:5.74-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-AutoSplit 0:5.74-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-autouse 0:1.11-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-B 0:1.89-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-B-debuginfo 0:1.89-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-base 0:2.27-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Benchmark 0:1.25-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-blib 0:1.07-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Class-Struct 0:0.68-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Config-Extensions 0:0.03-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-DBM_Filter 0:0.06-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-debugger 0:1.60-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-debuginfo 4:5.40.2-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-debugsource 4:5.40.2-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-deprecate 0:0.04-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-devel 4:5.40.2-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Devel-Peek 0:1.34-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Devel-Peek-debuginfo 0:1.34-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Devel-SelfStubber 0:1.06-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-diagnostics 0:1.40-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-DirHandle 0:1.05-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-doc 0:5.40.2-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Dumpvalue 0:2.27-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-DynaLoader 0:1.56-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-encoding-warnings 0:0.14-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-English 0:1.11-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Errno 0:1.38-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-ExtUtils-Constant 0:0.25-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-ExtUtils-Embed 0:1.35-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-ExtUtils-Miniperl 0:1.14-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Fcntl 0:1.18-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Fcntl-debuginfo 0:1.18-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-fields 0:2.27-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-File-Basename 0:2.86-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-File-Compare 0:1.100.800-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-File-Copy 0:2.41-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-File-DosGlob 0:1.12-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-File-DosGlob-debuginfo 0:1.12-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-File-Find 0:1.44-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-File-stat 0:1.14-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-FileCache 0:1.10-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-FileHandle 0:2.05-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-filetest 0:1.03-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-FindBin 0:1.54-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-GDBM_File 1:1.24-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-GDBM_File-debuginfo 1:1.24-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Getopt-Std 0:1.14-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Hash-Util 0:0.32-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Hash-Util-debuginfo 0:0.32-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Hash-Util-FieldHash 0:1.27-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Hash-Util-FieldHash-debuginfo 0:1.27-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-I18N-Collate 0:1.02-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-I18N-Langinfo 0:0.24-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-I18N-Langinfo-debuginfo 0:0.24-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-I18N-LangTags 0:0.45-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-if 0:0.61.000-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-interpreter 4:5.40.2-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-interpreter-debuginfo 4:5.40.2-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-IO 0:1.55-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-IO-debuginfo 0:1.55-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-IPC-Open3 0:1.22-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-less 0:0.03-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-lib 0:0.65-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-libnetcfg 4:5.40.2-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-libs 4:5.40.2-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-libs-debuginfo 4:5.40.2-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-locale 0:1.12-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Locale-Maketext-Simple 1:0.21-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-macros 4:5.40.2-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Math-Complex 0:1.62-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Memoize 0:1.16-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-meta-notation 0:5.40.2-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Module-Loaded 1:0.08-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-mro 0:1.29-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-mro-debuginfo 0:1.29-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-NDBM_File 0:1.17-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-NDBM_File-debuginfo 0:1.17-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Net 0:1.04-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-NEXT 0:0.69-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-ODBM_File 0:1.18-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-ODBM_File-debuginfo 0:1.18-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Opcode 0:1.65-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Opcode-debuginfo 0:1.65-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-open 0:1.13-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-overload 0:1.37-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-overloading 0:0.02-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-ph 0:5.40.2-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Pod-Functions 0:1.14-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Pod-Html 0:1.35-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-POSIX 0:2.20-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-POSIX-debuginfo 0:2.20-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Safe 0:2.46-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Search-Dict 0:1.07-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-SelectSaver 0:1.02-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-SelfLoader 0:1.27-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-sigtrap 0:1.10-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-sort 0:2.05-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-subs 0:1.04-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Symbol 0:1.09-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Sys-Hostname 0:1.25-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Sys-Hostname-debuginfo 0:1.25-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Term-Complete 0:1.403-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Term-ReadLine 0:1.17-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Test 0:1.31-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Text-Abbrev 0:1.02-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Thread 0:3.05-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Thread-Semaphore 0:2.13-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Tie 0:4.6-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Tie-File 0:1.09-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Tie-Memoize 0:1.1-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Time 0:1.04-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Time-Piece 0:1.3401-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Time-Piece-debuginfo 0:1.3401-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-Unicode-UCD 0:0.78-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-User-pwent 0:1.05-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-utils 0:5.40.2-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-vars 0:1.05-512.1.el10_0
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.0 perl-vmsish 0:1.04-512.1.el10_0

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 8.4
    CVE-2024-56406

    Perl is vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow when transliterating non-ASCII bytes

    A heap buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in Perl. Release branches 5.34, 5.36, 5.38 and 5.40 are affected, including development versions from 5.33.1 through 5.41.10. When there are non-ASCII bytes in the left-hand-side of the `tr` operator, `S_do_…

    perl perl perl perl Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine

References

  • article
    https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2359290
  • advisory
    https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2025/rhsa-2025_7500.json
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-56406
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-56406
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-56406
  • article
    https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/87f42aa0e0096e9a346c9672aa3a0bd3bef8c1dd.patch
  • article
    https://metacpan.org/release/SHAY/perl-5.38.4/changes
  • article
    https://metacpan.org/release/SHAY/perl-5.40.2/changes