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Medium RLSA-2025:17163 1 CVE

Moderate: perl-JSON-XS security update

Published Oct 3, 2025 · Updated Oct 8, 2025

Ecosystem: Rocky Linux

Summary

This module converts Perl data structures to JSON and vice versa. Its primary goal is to be correct and its secondary goal is to be fast. To reach the latter goal it was written in C.

Security Fix(es):

* JSON-XS: integer buffer overflow causing a segfault when parsing crafted JSON (CVE-2025-40928)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 8 perl-JSON-XS 1:3.04-4.el8_10

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

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2393878