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Critical RHSA-2026:49758 1 CVE

Red Hat Security Advisory: perl-GD security update

Published Aug 4, 2026 · Updated Aug 4, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7 perl-GD 0:2.49-3.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7 perl-GD-debuginfo 0:2.49-3.el7_9.1

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Critical 9.8
    CVE-2026-11526

    GD versions before 2.86 for Perl allow OS command injection and file overwrite via a 2-arg open() of filename arguments in _make_filehandle

    GD versions before 2.86 for Perl allow OS command injection and file overwrite via a 2-arg open() of filename arguments in _make_filehandle. GD::Image::_make_filehandle opens a filename argument with Perl's 2-arg open(), so a filename that begins or ends with…

    RURBAN GD libgd-perl perl-gd Debian Ubuntu Alpine

References

  • article
    https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2488744
  • advisory
    https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_49758.json
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-11526
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-11526
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-11526
  • article
    https://github.com/lstein/Perl-GD/commit/67b163713c6c78dfeb693da0978ae934e5cd8210.patch
  • article
    https://metacpan.org/release/RURBAN/GD-2.86/changes