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Mageia 9 perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS Moderate DoS Vulnerability MGASA-2025-0284

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Calendar Grey November 13, 2025
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Updated perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS packages address integer overflow vulnerability, enabling denial-of-service attacks in Mageia.
MGASA-2025-0284 - Updated perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS packages fix security vulnerability

Summary

Description: Cpanel::JSON::XS before version 4.40 for Perl has an integer buffer overflow causing a segfault when parsing crafted JSON, enabling denial-of-service attacks or other unspecified impact. (CVE-2025-40929)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34627

- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/09/08/1

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40929

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service perl integer overflow cPanel Mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 9/core/perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.350.0-1.1.mga9

Severity
important
Lowest
Low
Medium
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Critical

Publication date: 13 Nov 2025
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2025-0284.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2025-40929

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service perl integer overflow cPanel Mageia

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