Bug 2372334 (CVE-2025-40912)

Summary: CVE-2025-40912 cryptx: CryptX for Perl denial of service vector
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A denial-of-service vulnerability has been discovered in the CPAN CryptX module. This flaw can be triggered by an attacker who is able to supply specially malformed Unicode input. Such malicious input could lead to a program crash, impacting the availability of any applications or services that rely on the CryptX module.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-06-11 18:01:19 UTC
CryptX for Perl before version 0.065 contains a dependency that may be susceptible to malformed unicode.

CryptX embeds the tomcrypt library. The versions of that library in CryptX before 0.065 may be susceptible to CVE-2019-17362.