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USN-8467-2 (UBUNTU-CVE-2026-8376)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2026-07-02 06:15 – Updated: 2026-07-02 06:15 – Source website
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USN-8467-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Perl. This update provides the corresponding fix for Perl on Ubuntu 25.10.

Original advisory details: 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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