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Silently incorrect regular-expression matching in the Perl interpreter (all versions through 5.43.9) lets an oversized alternation of more than 65,535 fixed-string branches overflow a 16-bit delta field when the branches are optimized into a trie, truncating the match-decision table. The result is both false-positive and false-negative matches, so any Perl program that uses such a pattern to gate access or filter input can make wrong security decisions. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis, though the fixing commit ships a deterministic reproducer test, and the flaw is not listed in CISA KEV.
Out-of-bounds heap read in the Perl interpreter (through version 5.43.10) lets an attacker who controls a pack or unpack template disclose adjacent heap memory back to the calling program. An unchecked integer overflow in S_measure_struct wraps the running size total negative, defeating the signed-length guards on the @, X, and x position codes and walking the buffer pointer outside its bounds. No public exploit is identified at time of analysis; the flaw was reported by CPANSec with vendor patches already committed upstream.
Heap-based buffer overflow in Perl interpreters up to and including 5.43.10 on 32-bit builds lets a caller that compiles an attacker-controlled regular expression corrupt heap memory at regex compile time, with potential for code execution. The flaw stems from an integer overflow in Perl_study_chunk when optimizing a repeated fixed substring, and is rated CVSS 9.8 by NVD. EPSS is very low (0.02%, 5th percentile) and there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis; the issue is limited to 32-bit Perl builds and applications that feed untrusted input into regex compilation.
Perl versions 5.9.4-5.40.3, 5.41.0-5.42.1, and 5.43.0-5.43.8 bundle a vulnerable version of Compress::Raw::Zlib that inherits multiple information-disclosure vulnerabilities from a vendored zlib library, including CVE-2026-27171. Affected users running these Perl versions can experience data exposure through the bundled compression module. Vendor patches are available in Perl 5.40.4, 5.42.2, and 5.43.9 via Compress::Raw::Zlib 2.221.
Silently incorrect regular-expression matching in the Perl interpreter (all versions through 5.43.9) lets an oversized alternation of more than 65,535 fixed-string branches overflow a 16-bit delta field when the branches are optimized into a trie, truncating the match-decision table. The result is both false-positive and false-negative matches, so any Perl program that uses such a pattern to gate access or filter input can make wrong security decisions. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis, though the fixing commit ships a deterministic reproducer test, and the flaw is not listed in CISA KEV.
Out-of-bounds heap read in the Perl interpreter (through version 5.43.10) lets an attacker who controls a pack or unpack template disclose adjacent heap memory back to the calling program. An unchecked integer overflow in S_measure_struct wraps the running size total negative, defeating the signed-length guards on the @, X, and x position codes and walking the buffer pointer outside its bounds. No public exploit is identified at time of analysis; the flaw was reported by CPANSec with vendor patches already committed upstream.
Heap-based buffer overflow in Perl interpreters up to and including 5.43.10 on 32-bit builds lets a caller that compiles an attacker-controlled regular expression corrupt heap memory at regex compile time, with potential for code execution. The flaw stems from an integer overflow in Perl_study_chunk when optimizing a repeated fixed substring, and is rated CVSS 9.8 by NVD. EPSS is very low (0.02%, 5th percentile) and there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis; the issue is limited to 32-bit Perl builds and applications that feed untrusted input into regex compilation.
Perl versions 5.9.4-5.40.3, 5.41.0-5.42.1, and 5.43.0-5.43.8 bundle a vulnerable version of Compress::Raw::Zlib that inherits multiple information-disclosure vulnerabilities from a vendored zlib library, including CVE-2026-27171. Affected users running these Perl versions can experience data exposure through the bundled compression module. Vendor patches are available in Perl 5.40.4, 5.42.2, and 5.43.9 via Compress::Raw::Zlib 2.221.