Security Advisories (1)

CVE-2025-40928 (2025-09-08)

JSON::XS before version 4.04 for Perl has an integer buffer overflow causing a segfault when parsing crafted JSON, enabling denial-of-service attacks or other unspecified impact

https://metacpan.org/release/MLEHMANN/JSON-XS-4.03/source/XS.xs#L256
https://security.metacpan.org/patches/J/JSON-XS/4.03/CVE-2025-40928-r1.patch

NAME

JSON::XS::Boolean - dummy module providing JSON::XS::Boolean

SYNOPSIS

# do not "use" yourself

DESCRIPTION

This module exists only to provide overload resolution for Storable and similar modules. See JSON::XS for more info about this class.

AUTHOR

Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
http://home.schmorp.de/

To install JSON::XS, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.

cpanm

cpanm JSON::XS

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perl -MCPAN -e shell
install JSON::XS

For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.

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