RHSA-2025:11804 — Security Advisory

An update for perl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Perl is a high-level programming language that is commonly used for system administration utilities and web programming.

Security Fix(es):

• perl: Perl threads have a working directory race condition where file operations may target unintended paths (CVE-2025-40909)

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.