RLSA-2025:9329

Source
https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2025:9329
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2025:9329.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/RLSA-2025:9329
Upstream
Published
2025-07-29T13:39:03.816508Z
Modified
2025-07-29T14:33:27.106792Z
Severity
  • 7.7 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
Important: perl-YAML-LibYAML security update
Details

Kirill Siminov's "libyaml" is arguably the best YAML implementation. The C library is written precisely to the YAML 1.1 specification. It was originally bound to Python and was later bound to Ruby.

Security Fix(es):

  • yaml-libyaml: LibYAML Perl File Modification Vulnerability (CVE-2025-40908)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

References
Credits
    • Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation
    • Red Hat

Affected packages

Rocky Linux:8 / perl-YAML-LibYAML

Package

Name
perl-YAML-LibYAML
Purl
pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/perl-YAML-LibYAML?distro=rocky-linux-8&epoch=1

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:0.70-2.el8_10