USN-7434-2

It was discovered that Perl incorrectly handled transliterating non-ASCII bytes. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Perl to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:25.04 / perl

Package

Name: perl
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/perl@5.40.1-2ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=plucky

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

5.40.1-2ubuntu0.1

Affected versions

5.*

5.38.2-5

5.40.0-6

5.40.0-7

5.40.0-8

5.40.1-2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libperl-dev",
            "binary_version": "5.40.1-2ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libperl5.40",
            "binary_version": "5.40.1-2ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "perl",
            "binary_version": "5.40.1-2ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "perl-base",
            "binary_version": "5.40.1-2ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "perl-debug",
            "binary_version": "5.40.1-2ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "perl-modules-5.40",
            "binary_version": "5.40.1-2ubuntu0.1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves": [
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2024-56406"
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:25.04"
}