USN-8467-1: perl Ubuntu

CVSS: UnknownPublished
Published 24-06-2026Last modified 13-07-2026
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Vulnerability summary

USN-8467-1 is a vulnerability in perl Ubuntu with no CVSS score yet.

Overall risk
0/100
0100
Minimal · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
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010
No CVSS score recorded
EPSS score
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KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 2 · Downstream 0 · Related 2
CVE-2026-42496CVE-2026-8376

Timeline

  1. 24-06-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 13-07-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

perl vulnerabilities It was discovered that Perl's Archive::Tar module incorrectly handled symlink and hardlink targets during extraction. An attacker could use this issue to read or overwrite arbitrary files outside the extraction directory. (CVE-2026-42496) It was discovered that Perl had a heap buffer overflow when compiling regular expressions with a repeated fixed string on 32-bit builds. An attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2026-8376)

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Public exploits

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Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

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Affected systems

Ubuntu1 product
  • perl< 5.18.2-2ubuntu1.7+esm7 | < 5.22.1-9ubuntu0.9+esm2 | < 5.26.1-6ubuntu0.7+esm2 | < 5.30.0-9ubuntu0.5+esm2

1 vendor · 1 product

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