SUSE-SU-2025:20456-1

Vulnerability from csaf_suse - Published: 2025-07-01 11:42 - Updated: 2025-07-01 11:42
Summary
Security update for perl

Notes

Title of the patch
Security update for perl
Description of the patch
This update for perl fixes the following issues: - CVE-2025-40909: Fixed a working directory race condition causing file operations to target unintended paths (bsc#1244079)
Patchnames
SUSE-SLE-Micro-6.0-372
Terms of use
CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).
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