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Discovered by: Nathan Mills.
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=head2 [CVE-2025-40909] Perl threads have a working directory race condition where file operations may target unintended paths
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Perl thread cloning had a working directory race condition where file
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operations may target unintended paths. Perl 5.42 will no longer chdir
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to each handle.
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This problem was reported by Vincent Lefèvre via [L<GH #23010|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/23010>]
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and assigned [L<CVE-2025-40909|https://lists.security.metacpan.org/cve-announce/msg/30017499/>]
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by the L<CPAN Security Group|https://security.metacpan.org/>.
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Fixes were provided via [L<GH #23019|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/23019>]
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and [L<GH #23361|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/23361>].
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=head1 Incompatible Changes
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=head2 Removed containing function references for functions without eval
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[CVE-2025-40909] Perl threads have a working directory race condition where file operations may target unintended paths
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Perl thread cloning had a working directory race condition where file operations may target unintended paths. Perl 5.42 will no longer chdir to each handle.
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This problem was reported by Vincent Lefèvre via [L<GH #23010|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/23010>] and assigned [L<CVE-2025-40909: Perl threads have a working directory race condition where file operations may target unintended paths|https://lists.security.metacpan.org/cve-announce/msg/30017499/>].
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Fixes were provided via [L<GH #23019|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/23019>] and [L<GH #23361|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/23361>].
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Fix null pointer dereference in S_SvREFCNT_dec [L<GH #16627|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/16627>].
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