ALAS-2025-1981


Amazon Linux 1 (EOL) Security Advisory: ALAS-2025-1981
Advisory Released Date: 2025-06-09
Advisory Updated Date: 2025-06-09
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

Thread creation while a directory handle is open does a fchdir, affecting other threads (race condition) (CVE-2025-40909)


Affected Packages:

perl


Issue Correction:
Run yum update perl to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    perl-debuginfo-5.16.3-294.45.amzn1.i686
    perl-5.16.3-294.45.amzn1.i686
    perl-devel-5.16.3-294.45.amzn1.i686
    perl-macros-5.16.3-294.45.amzn1.i686
    perl-libs-5.16.3-294.45.amzn1.i686
    perl-Time-Piece-1.20.1-294.45.amzn1.i686
    perl-core-5.16.3-294.45.amzn1.i686
    perl-tests-5.16.3-294.45.amzn1.i686

noarch:
    perl-IO-Zlib-1.10-294.45.amzn1.noarch
    perl-Locale-Maketext-Simple-0.21-294.45.amzn1.noarch
    perl-Package-Constants-0.02-294.45.amzn1.noarch
    perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.28.2.6-294.45.amzn1.noarch
    perl-Pod-Escapes-1.04-294.45.amzn1.noarch
    perl-Module-CoreList-2.76.02-294.45.amzn1.noarch
    perl-ExtUtils-Install-1.58-294.45.amzn1.noarch
    perl-ExtUtils-Embed-1.30-294.45.amzn1.noarch
    perl-Module-Loaded-0.08-294.45.amzn1.noarch
    perl-CPAN-1.9800-294.45.amzn1.noarch
    perl-Object-Accessor-0.42-294.45.amzn1.noarch

src:
    perl-5.16.3-294.45.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    perl-core-5.16.3-294.45.amzn1.x86_64
    perl-debuginfo-5.16.3-294.45.amzn1.x86_64
    perl-Time-Piece-1.20.1-294.45.amzn1.x86_64
    perl-tests-5.16.3-294.45.amzn1.x86_64
    perl-5.16.3-294.45.amzn1.x86_64
    perl-libs-5.16.3-294.45.amzn1.x86_64
    perl-devel-5.16.3-294.45.amzn1.x86_64
    perl-macros-5.16.3-294.45.amzn1.x86_64