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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2025-40913 EUVD-2025-21701GHSA-x86q-3xjx-wg89

Net::Dropbear versions through 0.16 for Perl contains a dependency that may be susceptible to an integer overflow

Published Jul 16, 2025 · Updated Jul 16, 2025 · Assigned by CPANSec

Description

Net::Dropbear versions through 0.16 for Perl contains a dependency that may be susceptible to an integer overflow.

Net::Dropbear embeds a version of the libtommath library that is susceptible to an integer overflow associated with CVE-2023-36328.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
ATRODO Net::Dropbear 0.01 – ≤ 0.16 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 samba +1 No fix yet —
Azure Linux 3 tcl 8.6.13-2 —

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