RHSA-2025:9338 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for perl-YAML-LibYAML is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Kirill Siminov's "libyaml" is arguably the best YAML implementation. The C library is written precisely to the YAML 1.1 specification. It was originally bound to Python and was later bound to Ruby.

Security Fix(es):

• yaml-libyaml: LibYAML Perl File Modification Vulnerability (CVE-2025-40908)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.4 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.4 s390x
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.4 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2369630 - CVE-2025-40908 yaml-libyaml: LibYAML Perl File Modification Vulnerability

CVEs

• CVE-2025-40908

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important