USN-8467-2: Perl vulnerabilities

USN-8467-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Perl. This update provides the corresponding fix for Perl on Ubuntu 25.10. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Perl's Archive::Tar module incorrectly handled symlink and hardlink targets during extraction. An attacker could use this issue to read ...

USN-8467-1 perl vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Perl's Archive::Tar module incorrectly handled symlink and hardlink targets during extraction. An attacker could use this issue to read or overwrite arbitrary files outside the extraction directory. CVE-2026-42496 It was discovered that Perl had a heap buffer overflow when...

MiracleLinux 8 : perl-5.26.3-419.el8 (AXSA:2021-2044:27)

The remote MiracleLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the AXSA:2021-2044:27 advisory. perl: heap-based buffer overflow in regular expression compiler leads to DoS CVE-2020-10543 perl: corruption of intermediate language state of...