PaulHowarth/Blog/2025-09-09

Tuesday 9th September 2025

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS to 4.40 in F-41, F-42, F-43, Rawhide, EPEL-8, EPEL-9, EPEL-10.0, EPEL-10.1 and EPEL-10.2:

    • Fix overflow with overlong numbers, fuzzing only (CVE-2025-40929)

    • Detect more malformed numbers, with two decimal points
    • Pin Github actions to latest @v via pinact run -u

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS to 4.40 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-JSON-XS to 4.03:

    • Fix heap overflow causing crashes, possibly information disclosure or worse (CVE-2025-40928), and causes JSON::XS to accept invalid JSON texts as valid in some cases


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