CVE-2025-40912 Affecting libcryptx-perl package, versions <0.066-1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-LIBCRYPTXPERL-10343294
  • published12 Jun 2025
  • disclosed11 Jun 2025

Introduced: 11 Jun 2025

CVE-2025-40912  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable libcryptx-perl to version 0.066-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libcryptx-perl package and not the libcryptx-perl package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

CryptX for Perl before version 0.065 contains a dependency that may be susceptible to malformed unicode.

CryptX embeds the tomcrypt library. The versions of that library in CryptX before 0.065 may be susceptible to CVE-2019-17362.