Issued at: 2025-11-05
Updated at: 2025-11-17
Synopsis
Moderate: perl-JSON-XS security update
Description
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.