RLSA-2025:17162

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.

Affected products

Rocky Linux 9.6 aarch64 Rocky Linux 9.6 ppc64le Rocky Linux 9.6 s390x Rocky Linux 9.6 x86_64

Fixes

2393878

CVEs

CVE-2025-40928

Affected packages

Rocky Linux 9.6 aarch64 - CRB

perl-JSON-XS-1:4.04-1.el9_6.aarch64.rpm perl-JSON-XS-1:4.04-1.el9_6.src.rpm perl-JSON-XS-debuginfo-1:4.04-1.el9_6.aarch64.rpm perl-JSON-XS-debugsource-1:4.04-1.el9_6.aarch64.rpm

Rocky Linux 9.6 ppc64le - CRB

perl-JSON-XS-1:4.04-1.el9_6.ppc64le.rpm perl-JSON-XS-1:4.04-1.el9_6.src.rpm perl-JSON-XS-debuginfo-1:4.04-1.el9_6.ppc64le.rpm perl-JSON-XS-debugsource-1:4.04-1.el9_6.ppc64le.rpm

Rocky Linux 9.6 s390x - CRB

perl-JSON-XS-1:4.04-1.el9_6.s390x.rpm perl-JSON-XS-1:4.04-1.el9_6.src.rpm perl-JSON-XS-debuginfo-1:4.04-1.el9_6.s390x.rpm perl-JSON-XS-debugsource-1:4.04-1.el9_6.s390x.rpm

Rocky Linux 9.6 x86_64 - CRB

perl-JSON-XS-1:4.04-1.el9_6.src.rpm perl-JSON-XS-1:4.04-1.el9_6.x86_64.rpm perl-JSON-XS-debuginfo-1:4.04-1.el9_6.x86_64.rpm perl-JSON-XS-debugsource-1:4.04-1.el9_6.x86_64.rpm