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OESA-2026-2658 (CVE-2026-8376)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2026-06-12 11:11 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:11 – Source website

Summary

perl security update

Details

Perl 5 is a highly capable, feature-rich programming language with over 30 years of development. Perl 5 runs on over 100 platforms from portables to mainframes and is suitable for both rapid prototyping and large scale development projects.

Security Fix(es):

Perl versions through 5.43.10 have a heap buffer overflow when compiling regular expressions with a repeated fixed string on 32-bit builds.

Perl_study_chunk in regcomp_study.c checked the size of the joined substring buffer in characters rather than bytes. For a quantified fixed substring with a large minimum count, the byte length mincount * l could overflow SSize_t, producing an undersized SvGROW allocation; the subsequent copy writes past the end of the buffer.

A caller that compiles an attacker-controlled regular expression on a 32-bit perl build triggers a heap buffer overflow at compile time.(CVE-2026-8376)

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/zh/security/security-bu…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-8376	ADVISORY

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CVE-2026-8376 (GCVE-0-2026-8376)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-25 23:53 – Updated: 2026-09-08 21:33

Title

Perl versions before 5.40.5-RC1, from 5.41.0 before 5.42.3-RC1, from 5.43.0 before 5.43.11 have a heap buffer overflow when compiling regular expressions with a repeated fixed string on 32-bit builds

Summary

Perl versions before 5.40.5-RC1, from 5.41.0 before 5.42.3-RC1, from 5.43.0 before 5.43.11 have a heap buffer overflow when compiling regular expressions with a repeated fixed string on 32-bit builds. Perl_study_chunk in regcomp_study.c checked the size of the joined substring buffer in characters rather than bytes. For a quantified fixed substring with a large minimum count, the byte length mincount * l could overflow SSize_t, producing an undersized SvGROW allocation; the subsequent copy writes past the end of the buffer. A caller that compiles an attacker-controlled regular expression on a 32-bit perl build triggers a heap buffer overflow at compile time.

Severity

7.3 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-05-27 18:03 UTC

CWE

CWE-680 - Integer Overflow to Buffer Overflow

Assigner

CPANSec redhat root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/5e7f119eb2bb…	patch
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/26/1

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
		Affected: 0 , < 5.40.5-RC1 (custom) Affected: 5.41.0 , < 5.42.3-RC1 (custom) Affected: 5.43.0 , < 5.43.11 (custom)

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