CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-40928
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-09-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-122
Description
JSON::XS before version 4.04 for Perl has an integer buffer overflow causing a segfault when parsing crafted JSON, enabling denial-of-service attacks or other unspecified impact
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow weakness
References
- https://metacpan.org/release/MLEHMANN/JSON-XS-4.03/source/XS.xs#L256 metacpan.org
- https://security.metacpan.org/patches/J/JSON-XS/4.03/CVE-2025-40928-r1.patch security.metacpan.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/09/08/2 www.openwall.com
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/09/msg00033.html lists.debian.org