Red Hat Security Advisory: perl security update
Perl is a high-level programming language that is commonly used for system administration utilities and web programming. Security Fix(es): * perl: Perl 5.34, 5.36, 5.38 and 5.40 are vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow when transliterating non-ASCII bytes (CVE-2024-56406) 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.
Red Hat Security Advisory: perl security update
Description
Perl is a high-level programming language that is commonly used for system administration utilities and web programming. Security Fix(es): * perl: Perl 5.34, 5.36, 5.38 and 5.40 are vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow when transliterating non-ASCII bytes (CVE-2024-56406) 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 software
Weaknesses
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Csaf Category
- csaf_security_advisory
- Csaf Version
- 2.0
- Publisher
- Red Hat Product Security
- Advisory Id
- RHSA-2025:7500
- Cve Count
- 1
Threat ID: 6a1f4e89e29bf47b500832fb
Added to database: 06/02/2026, 21:43:37 UTC
Last enriched: 08/21/2026, 15:49:32 UTC
Last updated: 09/10/2026, 19:36:49 UTC
Views: 217
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