perl: Perl threads have a working directory race condition where file operations may target unintended paths

A flaw was found in the Perl standard library threads component. This vulnerability can allow a local attacker to exploit a race condition in directory handling to access files or load code from unexpected locations...

SUSE CVE-2025-40909

Perl threads have a working directory race condition where file operations may target unintended paths. If a directory handle is open at thread creation, the process-wide current working directory is temporarily changed in order to clone that handle for the new thread, which is visible from any...