Bug 2369739

Summary: CVE-2025-40908 perl-YAML-LibYAML: LibYAML Perl File Modification Vulnerability [fedora-42]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Avinash Hanwate <ahanwate>
Component: perl-YAML-LibYAMLAssignee: Jitka Plesnikova <jplesnik>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
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Version: 42CC: jplesnik, mmaslano, mspacek, paul, perl-devel
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Whiteboard: {"flaws": ["f6dfca03-6fd2-4487-ac5c-839067edd0e2"]}
Fixed In Version: perl-YAML-LibYAML-0.903.0-1.fc42 Doc Type: ---
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Last Closed: 2025-06-02 12:11:57 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Blocks: 2369630    

Description Avinash Hanwate 2025-06-02 10:51:32 UTC 
More information about this security flaw is available in the following bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2369630

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 Paul Howarth 2025-06-02 12:11:57 UTC 
perl-YAML-LibYAML-0.903.0-1.fc42, which addresses this issue, is already available:

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-6530581a43