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    <h1>Security update for perl</h1>

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            <th>Announcement ID:</th>
            <td>SUSE-SU-2025:02051-1</td>
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            <th>Release Date:</th>
            <td>2025-06-20T12:42:29Z</td>
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            <th>Rating:</th>
            <td>moderate</td>
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            <th>References:</th>
            <td>
                <ul>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1244079">bsc#1244079</a>
                        </li>
                    
                    
                </ul>
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                <th>
                    Cross-References:
                </th>
                <td>
                    <ul>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-40909.html">CVE-2025-40909</a>
                        </li>
                    
                    </ul>
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                <th>CVSS scores:</th>
                <td>
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                            <li class="list-group-item">
                                <span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2025-40909</span>
                                <span class="cvss-source">
                                    (
                                    
                                        SUSE
                                    
                                    ):
                                </span>
                                <span class="cvss-score">6.2</span>
                                <span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L</span>
                            </li>
                        
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                                <span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2025-40909</span>
                                <span class="cvss-source">
                                    (
                                    
                                        NVD
                                    
                                    ):
                                </span>
                                <span class="cvss-score">5.9</span>
                                <span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L</span>
                            </li>
                        
                    </ul>
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            <th>Affected Products:</th>
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                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5</li>
                    
                </ul>
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    <p>An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.</p>

    


    
        <h2>Description:</h2>
    
    <p>This update for perl fixes the following issues:</p>
<ul>
<li>CVE-2025-40909: do not change the current directory when cloning an open directory handle (bsc#1244079)</li>
</ul>



    

    <h2>Patch Instructions:</h2>
    <p>
        To install this SUSE  update use the SUSE recommended
        installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".<br/>

        Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
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                SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security
                
                    
                        <br/>
                        <code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-LTSS-EXTENDED-SECURITY-2025-2051=1</code>
                    
                    
                
            </li>
        
    </ul>

    <h2>Package List:</h2>
    <ul>
        
            
                <li>
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security (x86_64)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>perl-base-debuginfo-5.18.2-12.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>perl-debuginfo-32bit-5.18.2-12.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>perl-debugsource-5.18.2-12.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>perl-debuginfo-5.18.2-12.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>perl-base-5.18.2-12.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>perl-5.18.2-12.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>perl-32bit-5.18.2-12.29.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
                <li>
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security (noarch)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>perl-doc-5.18.2-12.29.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
        
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        <h2>References:</h2>
        <ul>
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-40909.html">https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-40909.html</a>
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                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1244079">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1244079</a>
                    </li>
                
            
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