Bug 2369463

Summary:	CVE-2025-40909 perl: Perl threads have a working directory race condition where file operations may target unintended paths [fedora-42]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Michal Findra <mfindra>
Component:	perl	Assignee:	Jitka Plesnikova <jplesnik>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	42	CC:	iarnell, jplesnik, kasal, mmaslano, mspacek, perl-devel, ppisar, psabata, rhughes, spotrh
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security, SecurityTracking
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Whiteboard:	{"flaws": ["8b3c517f-748c-46a7-a86f-5a69dd326cf3"]}
Fixed In Version:	perl-5.40.2-518.fc42 perl-5.40.2-516.fc41	Doc Type:	---
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Last Closed:	2025-07-12 01:46:01 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Blocks:	2369407

Description Michal Findra 2025-05-30 17:16:51 UTC

More information about this security flaw is available in the following bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2369407

Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2025-07-10 06:52:48 UTC

FEDORA-2025-f142899732 (perl-5.40.2-516.fc41) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 41.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-f142899732

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2025-07-10 06:52:50 UTC

FEDORA-2025-30244ebfc7 (perl-5.40.2-518.fc42) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 42.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-30244ebfc7

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2025-07-10 16:02:13 UTC

FEDORA-2025-30244ebfc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 42 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2025-30244ebfc7`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-30244ebfc7

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2025-07-10 18:46:12 UTC

FEDORA-2025-f142899732 has been pushed to the Fedora 41 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2025-f142899732`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-f142899732

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2025-07-12 01:46:01 UTC

FEDORA-2025-30244ebfc7 (perl-5.40.2-518.fc42) has been pushed to the Fedora 42 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2025-07-13 02:58:24 UTC

FEDORA-2025-f142899732 (perl-5.40.2-516.fc41) has been pushed to the Fedora 41 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.