Security Advisories (1)
CVE-2025-40909 (2025-05-30)

Perl threads have a working directory race condition where file operations may target unintended paths. If a directory handle is open at thread creation, the process-wide current working directory is temporarily changed in order to clone that handle for the new thread, which is visible from any third (or more) thread already running. This may lead to unintended operations such as loading code or accessing files from unexpected locations, which a local attacker may be able to exploit. The bug was introduced in commit 11a11ecf4bea72b17d250cfb43c897be1341861e and released in Perl version 5.13.6

NAME

perltodo - Link to the Perl to-do list

DESCRIPTION

The Perl 5 to-do list is maintained in the git repository, and can be viewed at https://github.com/Perl/perl5/blob/blead/Porting/todo.pod.

(The to-do list used to be here in perltodo. That has stopped, as installing a snapshot that becomes increasingly out of date isn't that useful to anyone.)