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openSUSE Leap · Security advisory · July 22, 2026
openSUSE Leap · Security advisory · July 22, 2026OPENSUSE-SU-2026:21411-1: perl security update
OPENSUSE-SU-2026:21411-1, released July 22, 2026, fixes 5 CVEs in perl (version 5.42.0-160000.3.1). None of them is reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.
High
CVEs closed
5
None rated Critical
Exploited
0
None reported
Highest CVSS
9.8
Base score, 0 to 10
Highest EPSS
0.0057
47th percentile
Priority of the 5 CVEs
Patch now 0
Urgent 0
High 4
Routine 1
Fixed package versions
| Product | Release | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| perl | opensuse-leap 16.0 | 5.42.0-160000.3.1 |
CVEs this fix closes
| Priority | CVE | Title | CVSS | EPSS | Exploitation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | CVE-2026-12087 | Socket versions before 2.041 for Perl have an out-of-bounds heap read | 9.1 | 0.0057 | None reported |
| High | CVE-2026-8376 | Perl versions through 5.43.10 have a heap buffer overflow when compiling regular expressions with a repeated fixed string on 32-bit builds | 9.8 | 0.0057 | None reported |
| High | CVE-2026-13221 | Perl versions through 5.43.9 produce silently incorrect regular expression matches when an alternation of more than 65535 fixed string branches is compiled into a trie in Perl_study_chunk | 9.1 | 0.0049 | None reported |
| High | CVE-2026-57432 | Perl versions through 5.43.10 have an integer overflow in S_measure_struct leading to an out-of-bounds heap read in pack and unpack | 8.4 | 0.0021 | None reported |
| Routine | CVE-2025-15649 | IO::Uncompress::Unzip versions before 2.215 for Perl propagate uncaught exception when parsing zip header with malformed DOS date | 5.5 | 0.0013 | None reported |
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