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  <update from="huaweicloud.com" type="security" status="stable" version="1">
    <id>HCE2-SA-2025-0162</id>
    <title>An update for perl is now available for HCE 2.0</title>
    <severity>Important</severity>
    <release>HCE 2.0</release>
    <issued date="2025-05-20 06:43:07"/>
    <updated date="2025-05-20 06:43:07"/>
    <references>
      <reference href="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-56406" id="CVE-2024-56406" title="CVE-2024-56406 Base Score: 8.6 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H" type="cve"/>
    </references>
    <description>Security Fix(es):

A heap buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in Perl. 

Release branches 5.34, 5.36, 5.38 and 5.40 are affected, including development versions from 5.33.1 through 5.41.10.

When there are non-ASCII bytes in the left-hand-side of the `tr` operator, `S_do_trans_invmap` can overflow the destination pointer `d`.

   $ perl -e _x27;$_ = &quot;\x{FF}&quot; x 1000000; tr/\xFF/\x{100}/;_x27; 
   Segmentation fault (core dumped)

It is believed that this vulnerability can enable Denial of Service and possibly Code Execution attacks on platforms that lack sufficient defenses. (CVE-2024-56406)
</description>
    <pkglist>
      <collection short="HCE 2.0" package="perl">
        <name>HCE 2.0</name>
        <package arch="aarch64" name="perl" version="5.34.0" release="3.r14.hce2">
          <filename>perl-5.34.0-3.r14.hce2.aarch64.rpm</filename>
        </package>
        <package arch="aarch64" name="perl-devel" version="5.34.0" release="3.r14.hce2">
          <filename>perl-devel-5.34.0-3.r14.hce2.aarch64.rpm</filename>
        </package>
        <package arch="noarch" name="perl-help" version="5.34.0" release="3.r14.hce2">
          <filename>perl-help-5.34.0-3.r14.hce2.noarch.rpm</filename>
        </package>
        <package arch="aarch64" name="perl-libs" version="5.34.0" release="3.r14.hce2">
          <filename>perl-libs-5.34.0-3.r14.hce2.aarch64.rpm</filename>
        </package>
        <package arch="x86_64" name="perl" version="5.34.0" release="3.r14.hce2">
          <filename>perl-5.34.0-3.r14.hce2.x86_64.rpm</filename>
        </package>
        <package arch="x86_64" name="perl-devel" version="5.34.0" release="3.r14.hce2">
          <filename>perl-devel-5.34.0-3.r14.hce2.x86_64.rpm</filename>
        </package>
        <package arch="x86_64" name="perl-libs" version="5.34.0" release="3.r14.hce2">
          <filename>perl-libs-5.34.0-3.r14.hce2.x86_64.rpm</filename>
        </package>
      </collection>
    </pkglist>
  </update>
