RHSA-2026:0079MediumCVSS 7.4

Red Hat Security Advisory: perl security update

Published
January 5, 2026
Last Modified
November 6, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2023-31484 →

📋 Description

CVE-2023-31484 — perl: CPAN.pm does not verify TLS certificates when downloading distributions over HTTPS

🎯 Affected products59

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7 ELS)
  • perl-4:5.16.3-299.el7_9.1.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • perl-4:5.16.3-299.el7_9.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • perl-4:5.16.3-299.el7_9.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • perl-4:5.16.3-299.el7_9.1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • perl-4:5.16.3-299.el7_9.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • perl-CPAN-0:1.9800-299.el7_9.1.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder-1:0.28.2.6-299.el7_9.1.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • perl-ExtUtils-Embed-0:1.30-299.el7_9.1.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • perl-ExtUtils-Install-0:1.58-299.el7_9.1.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • perl-IO-Zlib-1:1.10-299.el7_9.1.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • perl-Locale-Maketext-Simple-1:0.21-299.el7_9.1.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • perl-Module-CoreList-1:2.76.02-299.el7_9.1.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • perl-Module-Loaded-1:0.08-299.el7_9.1.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • perl-Object-Accessor-1:0.42-299.el7_9.1.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • perl-Package-Constants-1:0.02-299.el7_9.1.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • perl-Pod-Escapes-1:1.04-299.el7_9.1.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • perl-Time-Piece-0:1.20.1-299.el7_9.1.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • perl-Time-Piece-0:1.20.1-299.el7_9.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • perl-Time-Piece-0:1.20.1-299.el7_9.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • perl-Time-Piece-0:1.20.1-299.el7_9.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • perl-core-0:5.16.3-299.el7_9.1.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • perl-core-0:5.16.3-299.el7_9.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • perl-core-0:5.16.3-299.el7_9.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • perl-core-0:5.16.3-299.el7_9.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • perl-debuginfo-4:5.16.3-299.el7_9.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • perl-debuginfo-4:5.16.3-299.el7_9.1.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • perl-debuginfo-4:5.16.3-299.el7_9.1.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • perl-debuginfo-4:5.16.3-299.el7_9.1.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7 ELS)
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✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

🔗 References (4)