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CVE-2025-15649VulnerabilityPublished Updated

SUSE perl · Security update for perl

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Authoritative record:CVE-2025-15649· Medium 5.5

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 5.5 Medium : upgrade the affected SUSE packages to 5.42.0-160000.3.1 when convenient.

Data as of 31 Oct 2026, 20:20 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
5.5Medium
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
EPSS
0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 2% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Patch
Available – fixed in 5.42.0-160000.3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 27 May 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 31 Oct 2026.

What to do

Upgrade the SUSE to 5.42.0-160000.3.1.

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
SUSEsuse/perlpkg:rpm/suse/perlOther threatsAffected
  • <5.42.0-160000.3.1
Fixed in
  • 5.42.0-160000.3.1
SUSEsuse/perl-basepkg:rpm/suse/perl-baseOther threatsAffected
  • <5.42.0-160000.3.1
Fixed in
  • 5.42.0-160000.3.1

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AI-suggested

A security update is available that fixes these vulnerabilities. Users should apply the update to Perl versions prior to 5.42.0-160000.3.1 as provided by SUSE to mitigate these issues. No additional mitigation steps are indicated by the vendor advisory.

Description

This security update for Perl addresses multiple vulnerabilities including uncaught exceptions in zip header parsing, heap buffer overflow in regex compilation on 32-bit builds, heap memory disclosure in socket operations, integer overflow causing out-of-bounds heap reads, and regex trie branch-count overflow leading to incorrect pattern matching. These issues collectively pose a high risk to affected systems. No known exploits in the wild have been reported. The update fixes these issues to improve Perl's security and stability.

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