Issued at: 2026-11-03
Updated at: 2026-11-03
Advisory content derived from Red Hat RHSA-2026:93471, © Red Hat, Inc., used under CC BY 4.0, with modifications.
Synopsis
Important: perl-YAML:1.24 security update
Description
he perl-YAML package provides the pure-Perl implementation of the YAML (YAML Ain't Markup Language) data serialization standard. It allows developers to serialize Perl data structures into formatted YAML text and deserialize YAML data back into native Perl structures, making it widely used for configuration files, data exchange, and human-readable data storage in Perl applications.
Security Fix(es):
* perl-yaml: perl-yaml: Arbitrary code execution via unrestricted package variable assignment (CVE-2019-25777)
* perl-yaml: perl-yaml: Arbitrary destructor method execution via crafted YAML document (CVE-2017-20285)
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.