K000160822: Perl vulnerability CVE-2026-4177

Security Advisory Description YAML::Syck versions through 1.36 for Perl has several potential security vulnerabilities including a high-severity heap buffer overflow in the YAML emitter. The heap overflow occurs when class names exceed the initial 512-byte allocation. The base64 decoder could rea...

CVE-2026-5086

Crypt::SecretBuffer versions before 0.019 for Perl is suseceptible to timing attacks. For example, if Crypt::SecretBuffer was used to store and compare plaintext passwords, then discrepencies in timing could be used to guess the secret password...

[SECURITY] Fedora 42 Update: perl-Devel-Cover-1.44-7.fc42

This module provides code coverage metrics for Perl. Code coverage metrics describe how thoroughly tests exercise code. By using Devel::Cover you can discover areas of code not exercised by your tests and determine which tests to create to increase coverage. Code coverage can be considered as an...

[SECURITY] Fedora 42 Update: perl-PAR-Packer-1.064-3.fc42

This module implements the App::Packer::Backend interface, for generating stand-alone executables, perl scripts and PAR files...

[SECURITY] Fedora 42 Update: perl-5.40.4-520.fc42

Perl is a high-level programming language with roots in C, sed, awk and shell scripting. Perl is good at handling processes and files, and is especially good at handling text. Perl's hallmarks are practicality and efficiency. While it is used to do a lot of different things, Perl's most common...

perl:5.32 security update

perl 4:5.32.1-474 - Resolves: RHEL-153834 - Fix CVE-2025-40909 - Clone dirhandles without fchdir 4:5.32.1-473 - Fix CVE-2023-47038 - Added perl-autouse and perl-ExtUtils-MM-Utils to perl run-requires 4:5.32.1-472 - Add definition of OPTIMIZE to .ph files, if optimizing is used bug2159760...

AlmaLinux 8 : perl:5.32 (ALSA-2026:8096)

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2026:8096 advisory. perl: Perl threads have a working directory race condition where file operations may target unintended paths CVE-2025-40909 Tenable has extracted the preceding...

AlmaLinux 8 : perl-XML-Parser (ALSA-2026:7681)

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2026:7681 advisory. perl-xml-parser: XML::Parser: Memory corruption via deeply nested XML files CVE-2006-10003 perl-xml-parser: XML::Parser for Perl: Heap corruption and deni...

MiracleLinux 9 : perl-XML-Parser-2.46-9.1.el9_7 (AXSA:2026-436:01)

The remote MiracleLinux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the AXSA:2026-436:01 advisory. perl-xml-parser: XML::Parser: Memory corruption via deeply nested XML files CVE-2006-10003 perl-xml-parser: XML::Parser for Perl: Heap corruption and...

Fedora: Security Advisory (FEDORA-2026-58dd426edd)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

AlmaLinux 9 : perl-XML-Parser (ALSA-2026:7679)

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2026:7679 advisory. perl-xml-parser: XML::Parser: Memory corruption via deeply nested XML files CVE-2006-10003 perl-xml-parser: XML::Parser for Perl: Heap corruption and deni...

RHEL 8 : perl-XML-Parser (RHSA-2026:8577)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:8577 advisory. This module provides ways to parse XML documents. It is built on top of XML::Parser::Expat, which is a lower level interface to James Clark'...

RHEL 8 : perl-XML-Parser (RHSA-2026:8609)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:8609 advisory. This module provides ways to parse XML documents. It is built on top of XML::Parser::Expat, which is a lower level interface to James Clark'...

RHEL 8 : perl-XML-Parser (RHSA-2026:8610)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:8610 advisory. This module provides ways to parse XML documents. It is built on top of XML::Parser::Expat, which is a lower level interface to James Clark'...

Fedora 42 : perl / perl-Devel-Cover / perl-PAR-Packer / polymake (2026-58dd426edd)

The remote Fedora 42 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-58dd426edd advisory. Update for Perl 5.40.4 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Note that Nessus has not tested for...

RHEL 8 : perl-XML-Parser (RHSA-2026:8608)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:8608 advisory. This module provides ways to parse XML documents. It is built on top of XML::Parser::Expat, which is a lower level interface to James Clark'...

EUVD-2026-22840

Apache::API::Password versions through v0.5.2 for Perl can generate insecure random values for salts. The makesalt and makesaltbcrypt methods will attept to load Crypt::URandom and then Bytes::Random::Secure to generate random bytes for the salt. If those modules are unavailable, it will simply...

perl-YAML-Syck: YAML::Syck versions through 1.36 for Perl has several potential security vulnerabilities including a high-severity heap buffer overflow in the YAML emitter

Multiple security issues have been discovered in the perl YAML::Syck module. A heap overflow occurs when class names exceed the initial 512-byte allocation, a base64 decoder could read past the buffer end on trailing newlines. strtok mutated n-typeid in place, corrupting shared node data, and a...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: perl-YAML-Syck security update

An update for perl-YAML-Syck is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is...

RLSA-2026:7680 Important: perl-XML-Parser security update

This module provides ways to parse XML documents. It is built on top of XML::Parser::Expat, which is a lower level interface to James Clark's expat library. Each call to one of the parsing methods creates a new instance of XML::Parser::Expat which is then used to parse the document. Expat options...