INFSA-2025:7500: perl security update

Information about definition

Identificator: INFSA-2025:7500

Type: security

Release date: 2025-07-15 19:37:17 UTC

Information about package

Perl is a high-level programming language that is commonly used for system administration utilities and web programming.

Vulnerabilities description

  • CVE-2024-56406

    A flaw was found in Perl. This vulnerability allows a heap buffer overflow, which can lead to denial of service and potential arbitrary code execution on platforms that lack sufficient defenses via specially crafted input to the tr/// transliteration operator containing non-ASCII bytes on the left-hand side.

Severity level

CVE Score CVSS 2.0 Score CVSS 3.x Score CVSS 4.0
no information 7.3 no information
Critical, important, moderate, low

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