{"id":"RLSA-2025:11805","summary":"Moderate: perl security update","details":"Perl is a high-level programming language that is commonly used for system administration utilities and web programming.\n\nSecurity Fix(es):\n\n* perl: Perl threads have a working directory race condition where file operations may target unintended paths (CVE-2025-40909)\n\nFor 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.","modified":"2025-07-29T14:59:57.716857Z","published":"2025-07-29T13:38:26.982620Z","upstream":["CVE-2025-40909"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2025:11805"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2369407"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"perl","ecosystem":"Rocky Linux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/perl?distro=rocky-linux-8&epoch=4"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4:5.26.3-423.el8_10"}],"database_specific":{"yum_repository":"BaseOS"}}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2025:11805.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L"}],"credits":[{"name":"Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation"},{"name":"Red Hat"}]}