Vulnerabilites related to perl - perl
CVE-2025-40909 (GCVE-0-2025-40909)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-05-30 12:20
Modified
2025-11-03 18:09
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
Perl threads have a working directory race condition where file operations may target unintended paths.
If a directory handle is open at thread creation, the process-wide current working directory is temporarily changed in order to clone that handle for the new thread, which is visible from any third (or more) thread already running.
This may lead to unintended operations such as loading code or accessing files from unexpected locations, which a local attacker may be able to exploit.
The bug was introduced in commit 11a11ecf4bea72b17d250cfb43c897be1341861e and released in Perl version 5.13.6
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CVE-2024-56406 (GCVE-0-2024-56406)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-04-13 13:16
Modified
2025-10-16 14:04
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
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Summary
A heap buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in Perl.
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When there are non-ASCII bytes in the left-hand-side of the `tr` operator, `S_do_trans_invmap` can overflow the destination pointer `d`.
$ perl -e '$_ = "\x{FF}" x 1000000; tr/\xFF/\x{100}/;'
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
It is believed that this vulnerability can enable Denial of Service and possibly Code Execution attacks on platforms that lack sufficient defenses.
References
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