SUSE-SU-2026:2709-1

Vulnerability from csaf_suse - Published: 2026-06-30 10:55 - Updated: 2026-09-17 16:27
Summary
Security update for perl-Config-IniFiles
Severity
Important
Notes
Title of the patch: Security update for perl-Config-IniFiles
Description of the patch: This update for perl-Config-IniFiles fixes the following issue - CVE-2026-11527: OS command injection and file overwrite via a 2-arg open() of the -file argument in _make_filehandle (bsc#1268236).
Patchnames: SUSE-2026-2709,SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-LTSS-2026-2709,SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-LTSS-EXTENDED-SECURITY-2026-2709
Terms of use: CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).
Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5:perl-Config-IniFiles-0:2.82-5.3.1.noarch —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5-LTSS:perl-Config-IniFiles-0:2.82-5.3.1.noarch —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5:perl-Config-IniFiles-0:2.82-5.3.1.noarch —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5:perl-Config-IniFiles-0:2.82-5.3.1.noarch —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5:perl-Config-IniFiles-0:2.82-5.3.1.noarch —
Vendor Fix
Threats
Impact important

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