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source: perl (main)
version: 5.42.3-1
maintainer: Niko Tyni (DMD)
uploaders: Dominic Hargreaves [DMD]
arch: all any
std-ver: 3.9.8
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

versions [more versions can be listed by madison] [old versions available from snapshot.debian.org]

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o-o-stable: 5.32.1-4+deb11u3
o-o-sec: 5.32.1-4+deb11u5
oldstable: 5.36.0-7+deb12u3
old-sec: 5.36.0-7+deb12u2
stable: 5.40.1-6
testing: 5.42.2-3
unstable: 5.42.3-1
exp: 5.44.0-1

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libperl-dev
libperl5.42
perl (126 bugs: 0, 59, 67, 0)
perl-base (6 bugs: 0, 4, 2, 0)
perl-debug (1 bugs: 0, 0, 1, 0)
perl-doc (74 bugs: 0, 9, 65, 0)
perl-modules-5.42

action needed

A new upstream version is available: 5.44.0 high

A new upstream version 5.44.0 is available, you should consider packaging it.

Created: 2026-08-19 Last update: 2026-08-23 20:31

The VCS repository is not up to date, push the missing commits. high

vcswatch reports that the current version of the package is not in its VCS.
Either you need to push your commits and/or your tags, or the information about the package's VCS are out of date. A common cause of the latter issue when using the Git VCS is not specifying the correct branch when the packaging is not in the default one (remote HEAD branch), which is usually "master" but can be modified in salsa.debian.org in the project's general settings with the "Default Branch" field). Alternatively the Vcs-Git field in debian/control can contain a "-b <branch-name>" suffix to indicate what branch is used for the Debian packaging.

https://salsa.debian.org/api/v4/projects/perl-team%2Finterpreter%2Fperl API request failed: 401 Unauthorized at /srv/qa.debian.org/data/vcswatch/vcswatch line 410.

Created: 2025-08-17 Last update: 2026-08-23 03:21

lintian reports 22 errors and 82 warnings high

Lintian reports 22 errors and 82 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2026-08-18 Last update: 2026-08-18 15:17

16 security issues in trixie high

There are 16 open security issues in trixie.

11 important issues:

CVE-2026-7010: HTTP::Tiny versions before 0.093 for Perl do not validate CRLF in HTTP request lines or control field header values. The unvalidated inputs are the method and URI in the request line, the URL host that becomes the `Host:` header, and HTTP/1.1 control data field values. An attacker who controls one of these inputs, for example a user supplied URL passed to a webhook or URL fetch endpoint, can inject additional headers and smuggle requests to the upstream server.
CVE-2026-7017: HTTP::Tiny versions before 0.095 for Perl forward credential headers to cross-origin redirect targets. When the server returns a 3xx redirect, `_maybe_redirect` follows the `Location:` header and `_prepare_headers_and_cb` re-merges the caller's `headers` argument into the new request, without checking whether the redirect target shares an origin with the original URL. Caller-supplied `Authorization`, `Cookie` and `Proxy-Authorization` headers are therefore re-sent to whatever host the redirect names, across scheme, host or port boundaries, and including `https` to `http` downgrades that expose them in plaintext on the wire. The HTTP::Tiny POD note that "Authorization headers will not be included in a redirected request" applied only to the URL-userinfo Basic-auth path, not to headers passed explicitly by the caller.
CVE-2025-15649: IO::Uncompress::Unzip versions before 2.215 for Perl propagate uncaught exception when parsing zip header with malformed DOS date. _dosToUnixTime() decodes the local-file-header last-modification date field and calls Time::Local::timelocal() without an eval guard. A header whose date field decodes to an out-of-range month, day, or hour causes timelocal() to die. The exception propagates out of IO::Uncompress::Unzip->new($file) where callers expect undef plus $UnzipError.
CVE-2026-12087: Socket versions before 2.041 for Perl have an out-of-bounds heap read. In Socket.xs, pack_ip_mreq_source() checks the length of its source argument before the argument is read, so the check tests the byte length carried over from the preceding multiaddr argument instead. Both addresses occupy a 4-byte field, so a valid multiaddr lets a source of any length pass the check, and the source is then copied into the 4-byte imr_sourceaddr field with a fixed-size copy. A source shorter than 4 bytes is not rejected, and the copy reads up to 3 bytes past the end of its buffer. Calling pack_ip_mreq_source() with a source value shorter than 4 bytes copies adjacent heap memory into the returned packed structure.
CVE-2026-13221: Perl versions through 5.43.9 produce silently incorrect regular expression matches when an alternation of more than 65535 fixed string branches is compiled into a trie in Perl_study_chunk. When such branches are combined into a trie, the delta between the first branch and the shared tail is stored in a 16-bit field. A branch count above 65535 overflows the field, and the trie's match decision table is truncated with no warning or error. A pattern of this shape produces false positive matches (matching strings it should not) and false negative matches (failing to match strings it should). When such a pattern gates an access or filtering decision, the result is wrong.
CVE-2026-19487: Perl versions from 5.9.4 before 5.41.9 produce incorrect regular expression match results when a stale failure flag ends the Aho-Corasick prescan early in S_find_byclass. The prescan walks the subject for positions where the full pattern could match, and the engine tries it from the leftmost one recorded. A failing transition sets the failed flag, and a later successful transition does not clear it, so the prescan reads the stale flag as a failure and stops before it can record a candidate that starts earlier. It takes a subject where one candidate is recorded and a later character then forces a fallback through a fail link that succeeds. Example: "ABCDE" =~ m/ABCF|BCDE|C/; # matches C at offset 2, not BCDE "ABCDE" =~ m/ABCF|BCDE|C(G)/; # no match, BCDE missed An alternation like this can miss input it should match, or match it on the wrong branch, so an access or filtering decision made from the result can be wrong.
CVE-2026-48959: IO::Uncompress::Unzip versions before 2.220 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via per-byte read loop in fastForward. fastForward() compares length $offset (the digit count of the offset, 1 to 19) against the chunk size $c instead of $offset itself, so $c shrinks from 16 KiB to 1-19 bytes per iteration. Extracting a named entry from an attacker supplied zip via IO::Uncompress::Unzip->new($zip, Name => $target) drives a per-byte read loop scaling with the entry's compressed size, up to the non-Zip64 4 GiB cap.
CVE-2026-48961: IO::Compress versions from 2.207 before 2.220 for Perl ship a zipdetails CLI tool that crashes with undefined subroutine on Info-ZIP Unix Extra Field with 8-byte UID or GID. When decode_ux() in bin/zipdetails handles an Info-ZIP Unix Extra Field (tag 0x7875) with UID Size or GID Size set to 8, causing zipdetails to decode an 8-byte UID or GID value, it dispatches through decodeLitteEndian(), which calls a misnamed helper unpackValueQ. The actual function defined in the same file is unpackValue_Q (with underscore); the call raises 'Undefined subroutine &main::unpackValueQ' and the script exits with status 255. Library callers of IO::Compress and IO::Uncompress are not affected; the defect is in the bundled CLI tool.
CVE-2026-48962: IO::Compress versions before 2.220 for Perl can execute arbitrary code in File::GlobMapper via an attacker-controlled output glob. _parseOutputGlob() wraps the caller-supplied output glob string in double quotes and stores it in the parser state; _getFiles() then runs the stored expression through eval STRING. A literal double quote in the output glob closes the dquote wrapper, and the characters that follow are evaluated as Perl. Arbitrary Perl in the output glob executes at the calling process's privilege.
CVE-2026-57432: Perl versions through 5.43.10 have an integer overflow in S_measure_struct leading to an out-of-bounds heap read in pack and unpack. S_measure_struct adds each item's size times its repeat count to a running total with no overflow check, so a large repeat count in a pack or unpack template wraps the signed SSize_t total negative. The @, X, and x position codes then guard their moves with a signed length comparison that passes when the length is negative, advancing the buffer pointer out of bounds. A template derived from untrusted input can read heap memory past the buffer and return it to the caller.
CVE-2026-57433: Storable versions before 3.41 for Perl have a signed integer overflow when deserializing a crafted SX_HOOK record. retrieve_hook_common reads a signed 32-bit item count from an SX_HOOK record and calls av_extend with that count plus one. A count of I32_MAX wraps the addition to a negative value. A crafted blob passed to thaw or retrieve triggers the overflow; av_extend receives the negative count and dies with a panic, terminating the deserialization.

5 issues left for the package maintainer to handle:

CVE-2026-8376: (needs triaging) 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-2026-9538: (postponed; to be fixed through a stable update) Archive::Tar versions before 3.10 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via attacker controlled entry size field in tar header. _read_tar() reads each entry's payload with $handle->read($$data, $block), where $block is derived from the entry's 12-byte size field in the tar header with no upper bound on that value. A crafted header declaring a multi-gigabyte size causes Perl to allocate a scalar of that size.
CVE-2026-15534: (postponed; to be fixed through a stable update) Perl versions through 5.45.1 have out-of-bounds heap reads and writes during regular expression matching via an undersized superlinear cache in S_regmatch. The regex engine's superlinear cache holds one bit per subject position for each participating WHILEM node, so the bit count is the subject length plus one times the number of nodes. Nothing checks that product for positive overflow of the signed 32-bit count: a 286331153 byte subject matched against a pattern with 15 participating nodes stores the count as 14, leaving a two byte cache. The cache is then indexed from the real match position and node number, so reads go past the end of the allocation, and on failure CACHEsayNO sets a bit past it. A caller that matches an attacker controlled subject of this size against a pattern of this shape can crash the process or corrupt heap memory.
CVE-2026-42496: (postponed; to be fixed through a stable update) Archive::Tar versions before 3.08 for Perl extract symlinks with attacker controlled targets outside the extraction directory. _make_special_file() passes the tar header's linkname to symlink() without validating it against absolute paths or .. segments. The secure-extract mode check that guards regular file extraction does not cover the symlink target. A subsequent open through the extracted name reads or writes the attacker chosen path.
CVE-2026-42497: (postponed; to be fixed through a stable update) Archive::Tar versions before 3.08 for Perl extract hardlinks to attacker controlled paths outside the extraction directory. _make_special_file() passes the tar header's linkname to link() without validating it against absolute paths or .. segments, creating a hardlink that shares the victim file's inode. A subsequent write through the extracted name modifies the victim file, and the post-extraction chmod, chown, and utime block in _extract_file() (guarded only against symlinks via -l) applies the tar header's mode, owner, and timestamps to the shared inode during extraction alone.

You can find information about how to handle these issues in the security team's documentation.

Created: 2026-05-21 Last update: 2026-08-18 11:00

1 security issue in sid high

There is 1 open security issue in sid.

1 important issue:

CVE-2026-15534: Perl versions through 5.45.1 have out-of-bounds heap reads and writes during regular expression matching via an undersized superlinear cache in S_regmatch. The regex engine's superlinear cache holds one bit per subject position for each participating WHILEM node, so the bit count is the subject length plus one times the number of nodes. Nothing checks that product for positive overflow of the signed 32-bit count: a 286331153 byte subject matched against a pattern with 15 participating nodes stores the count as 14, leaving a two byte cache. The cache is then indexed from the real match position and node number, so reads go past the end of the allocation, and on failure CACHEsayNO sets a bit past it. A caller that matches an attacker controlled subject of this size against a pattern of this shape can crash the process or corrupt heap memory.

Created: 2026-05-21 Last update: 2026-08-18 11:00

7 security issues in forky high

There are 7 open security issues in forky.

7 important issues:

CVE-2026-7017: HTTP::Tiny versions before 0.095 for Perl forward credential headers to cross-origin redirect targets. When the server returns a 3xx redirect, `_maybe_redirect` follows the `Location:` header and `_prepare_headers_and_cb` re-merges the caller's `headers` argument into the new request, without checking whether the redirect target shares an origin with the original URL. Caller-supplied `Authorization`, `Cookie` and `Proxy-Authorization` headers are therefore re-sent to whatever host the redirect names, across scheme, host or port boundaries, and including `https` to `http` downgrades that expose them in plaintext on the wire. The HTTP::Tiny POD note that "Authorization headers will not be included in a redirected request" applied only to the URL-userinfo Basic-auth path, not to headers passed explicitly by the caller.
CVE-2026-9538: Archive::Tar versions before 3.10 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via attacker controlled entry size field in tar header. _read_tar() reads each entry's payload with $handle->read($$data, $block), where $block is derived from the entry's 12-byte size field in the tar header with no upper bound on that value. A crafted header declaring a multi-gigabyte size causes Perl to allocate a scalar of that size.
CVE-2026-12087: Socket versions before 2.041 for Perl have an out-of-bounds heap read. In Socket.xs, pack_ip_mreq_source() checks the length of its source argument before the argument is read, so the check tests the byte length carried over from the preceding multiaddr argument instead. Both addresses occupy a 4-byte field, so a valid multiaddr lets a source of any length pass the check, and the source is then copied into the 4-byte imr_sourceaddr field with a fixed-size copy. A source shorter than 4 bytes is not rejected, and the copy reads up to 3 bytes past the end of its buffer. Calling pack_ip_mreq_source() with a source value shorter than 4 bytes copies adjacent heap memory into the returned packed structure.
CVE-2026-13221: Perl versions through 5.43.9 produce silently incorrect regular expression matches when an alternation of more than 65535 fixed string branches is compiled into a trie in Perl_study_chunk. When such branches are combined into a trie, the delta between the first branch and the shared tail is stored in a 16-bit field. A branch count above 65535 overflows the field, and the trie's match decision table is truncated with no warning or error. A pattern of this shape produces false positive matches (matching strings it should not) and false negative matches (failing to match strings it should). When such a pattern gates an access or filtering decision, the result is wrong.
CVE-2026-15534: Perl versions through 5.45.1 have out-of-bounds heap reads and writes during regular expression matching via an undersized superlinear cache in S_regmatch. The regex engine's superlinear cache holds one bit per subject position for each participating WHILEM node, so the bit count is the subject length plus one times the number of nodes. Nothing checks that product for positive overflow of the signed 32-bit count: a 286331153 byte subject matched against a pattern with 15 participating nodes stores the count as 14, leaving a two byte cache. The cache is then indexed from the real match position and node number, so reads go past the end of the allocation, and on failure CACHEsayNO sets a bit past it. A caller that matches an attacker controlled subject of this size against a pattern of this shape can crash the process or corrupt heap memory.
CVE-2026-42496: Archive::Tar versions before 3.08 for Perl extract symlinks with attacker controlled targets outside the extraction directory. _make_special_file() passes the tar header's linkname to symlink() without validating it against absolute paths or .. segments. The secure-extract mode check that guards regular file extraction does not cover the symlink target. A subsequent open through the extracted name reads or writes the attacker chosen path.
CVE-2026-42497: Archive::Tar versions before 3.08 for Perl extract hardlinks to attacker controlled paths outside the extraction directory. _make_special_file() passes the tar header's linkname to link() without validating it against absolute paths or .. segments, creating a hardlink that shares the victim file's inode. A subsequent write through the extracted name modifies the victim file, and the post-extraction chmod, chown, and utime block in _extract_file() (guarded only against symlinks via -l) applies the tar header's mode, owner, and timestamps to the shared inode during extraction alone.

Created: 2026-05-21 Last update: 2026-08-18 11:00

16 security issues in bullseye high

There are 16 open security issues in bullseye.

15 important issues:

CVE-2026-7010: HTTP::Tiny versions before 0.093 for Perl do not validate CRLF in HTTP request lines or control field header values. The unvalidated inputs are the method and URI in the request line, the URL host that becomes the `Host:` header, and HTTP/1.1 control data field values. An attacker who controls one of these inputs, for example a user supplied URL passed to a webhook or URL fetch endpoint, can inject additional headers and smuggle requests to the upstream server.
CVE-2026-7017: HTTP::Tiny versions before 0.095 for Perl forward credential headers to cross-origin redirect targets. When the server returns a 3xx redirect, `_maybe_redirect` follows the `Location:` header and `_prepare_headers_and_cb` re-merges the caller's `headers` argument into the new request, without checking whether the redirect target shares an origin with the original URL. Caller-supplied `Authorization`, `Cookie` and `Proxy-Authorization` headers are therefore re-sent to whatever host the redirect names, across scheme, host or port boundaries, and including `https` to `http` downgrades that expose them in plaintext on the wire. The HTTP::Tiny POD note that "Authorization headers will not be included in a redirected request" applied only to the URL-userinfo Basic-auth path, not to headers passed explicitly by the caller.
CVE-2026-9538: Archive::Tar versions before 3.10 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via attacker controlled entry size field in tar header. _read_tar() reads each entry's payload with $handle->read($$data, $block), where $block is derived from the entry's 12-byte size field in the tar header with no upper bound on that value. A crafted header declaring a multi-gigabyte size causes Perl to allocate a scalar of that size.
CVE-2025-15649: IO::Uncompress::Unzip versions before 2.215 for Perl propagate uncaught exception when parsing zip header with malformed DOS date. _dosToUnixTime() decodes the local-file-header last-modification date field and calls Time::Local::timelocal() without an eval guard. A header whose date field decodes to an out-of-range month, day, or hour causes timelocal() to die. The exception propagates out of IO::Uncompress::Unzip->new($file) where callers expect undef plus $UnzipError.
CVE-2026-12087: Socket versions before 2.041 for Perl have an out-of-bounds heap read. In Socket.xs, pack_ip_mreq_source() checks the length of its source argument before the argument is read, so the check tests the byte length carried over from the preceding multiaddr argument instead. Both addresses occupy a 4-byte field, so a valid multiaddr lets a source of any length pass the check, and the source is then copied into the 4-byte imr_sourceaddr field with a fixed-size copy. A source shorter than 4 bytes is not rejected, and the copy reads up to 3 bytes past the end of its buffer. Calling pack_ip_mreq_source() with a source value shorter than 4 bytes copies adjacent heap memory into the returned packed structure.
CVE-2026-13221: Perl versions through 5.43.9 produce silently incorrect regular expression matches when an alternation of more than 65535 fixed string branches is compiled into a trie in Perl_study_chunk. When such branches are combined into a trie, the delta between the first branch and the shared tail is stored in a 16-bit field. A branch count above 65535 overflows the field, and the trie's match decision table is truncated with no warning or error. A pattern of this shape produces false positive matches (matching strings it should not) and false negative matches (failing to match strings it should). When such a pattern gates an access or filtering decision, the result is wrong.
CVE-2026-15534: Perl versions through 5.45.1 have out-of-bounds heap reads and writes during regular expression matching via an undersized superlinear cache in S_regmatch. The regex engine's superlinear cache holds one bit per subject position for each participating WHILEM node, so the bit count is the subject length plus one times the number of nodes. Nothing checks that product for positive overflow of the signed 32-bit count: a 286331153 byte subject matched against a pattern with 15 participating nodes stores the count as 14, leaving a two byte cache. The cache is then indexed from the real match position and node number, so reads go past the end of the allocation, and on failure CACHEsayNO sets a bit past it. A caller that matches an attacker controlled subject of this size against a pattern of this shape can crash the process or corrupt heap memory.
CVE-2026-19487: Perl versions from 5.9.4 before 5.41.9 produce incorrect regular expression match results when a stale failure flag ends the Aho-Corasick prescan early in S_find_byclass. The prescan walks the subject for positions where the full pattern could match, and the engine tries it from the leftmost one recorded. A failing transition sets the failed flag, and a later successful transition does not clear it, so the prescan reads the stale flag as a failure and stops before it can record a candidate that starts earlier. It takes a subject where one candidate is recorded and a later character then forces a fallback through a fail link that succeeds. Example: "ABCDE" =~ m/ABCF|BCDE|C/; # matches C at offset 2, not BCDE "ABCDE" =~ m/ABCF|BCDE|C(G)/; # no match, BCDE missed An alternation like this can miss input it should match, or match it on the wrong branch, so an access or filtering decision made from the result can be wrong.
CVE-2026-42496: Archive::Tar versions before 3.08 for Perl extract symlinks with attacker controlled targets outside the extraction directory. _make_special_file() passes the tar header's linkname to symlink() without validating it against absolute paths or .. segments. The secure-extract mode check that guards regular file extraction does not cover the symlink target. A subsequent open through the extracted name reads or writes the attacker chosen path.
CVE-2026-42497: Archive::Tar versions before 3.08 for Perl extract hardlinks to attacker controlled paths outside the extraction directory. _make_special_file() passes the tar header's linkname to link() without validating it against absolute paths or .. segments, creating a hardlink that shares the victim file's inode. A subsequent write through the extracted name modifies the victim file, and the post-extraction chmod, chown, and utime block in _extract_file() (guarded only against symlinks via -l) applies the tar header's mode, owner, and timestamps to the shared inode during extraction alone.
CVE-2026-48959: IO::Uncompress::Unzip versions before 2.220 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via per-byte read loop in fastForward. fastForward() compares length $offset (the digit count of the offset, 1 to 19) against the chunk size $c instead of $offset itself, so $c shrinks from 16 KiB to 1-19 bytes per iteration. Extracting a named entry from an attacker supplied zip via IO::Uncompress::Unzip->new($zip, Name => $target) drives a per-byte read loop scaling with the entry's compressed size, up to the non-Zip64 4 GiB cap.
CVE-2026-48961: IO::Compress versions from 2.207 before 2.220 for Perl ship a zipdetails CLI tool that crashes with undefined subroutine on Info-ZIP Unix Extra Field with 8-byte UID or GID. When decode_ux() in bin/zipdetails handles an Info-ZIP Unix Extra Field (tag 0x7875) with UID Size or GID Size set to 8, causing zipdetails to decode an 8-byte UID or GID value, it dispatches through decodeLitteEndian(), which calls a misnamed helper unpackValueQ. The actual function defined in the same file is unpackValue_Q (with underscore); the call raises 'Undefined subroutine &main::unpackValueQ' and the script exits with status 255. Library callers of IO::Compress and IO::Uncompress are not affected; the defect is in the bundled CLI tool.
CVE-2026-48962: IO::Compress versions before 2.220 for Perl can execute arbitrary code in File::GlobMapper via an attacker-controlled output glob. _parseOutputGlob() wraps the caller-supplied output glob string in double quotes and stores it in the parser state; _getFiles() then runs the stored expression through eval STRING. A literal double quote in the output glob closes the dquote wrapper, and the characters that follow are evaluated as Perl. Arbitrary Perl in the output glob executes at the calling process's privilege.
CVE-2026-57432: Perl versions through 5.43.10 have an integer overflow in S_measure_struct leading to an out-of-bounds heap read in pack and unpack. S_measure_struct adds each item's size times its repeat count to a running total with no overflow check, so a large repeat count in a pack or unpack template wraps the signed SSize_t total negative. The @, X, and x position codes then guard their moves with a signed length comparison that passes when the length is negative, advancing the buffer pointer out of bounds. A template derived from untrusted input can read heap memory past the buffer and return it to the caller.
CVE-2026-57433: Storable versions before 3.41 for Perl have a signed integer overflow when deserializing a crafted SX_HOOK record. retrieve_hook_common reads a signed 32-bit item count from an SX_HOOK record and calls av_extend with that count plus one. A count of I32_MAX wraps the addition to a negative value. A crafted blob passed to thaw or retrieve triggers the overflow; av_extend receives the negative count and dies with a panic, terminating the deserialization.

1 issue postponed or untriaged:

CVE-2026-8376: (postponed; to be fixed through a stable update) 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.

Created: 2026-05-26 Last update: 2026-08-18 11:00

16 security issues in bookworm high

There are 16 open security issues in bookworm.

12 important issues:

CVE-2026-7010: HTTP::Tiny versions before 0.093 for Perl do not validate CRLF in HTTP request lines or control field header values. The unvalidated inputs are the method and URI in the request line, the URL host that becomes the `Host:` header, and HTTP/1.1 control data field values. An attacker who controls one of these inputs, for example a user supplied URL passed to a webhook or URL fetch endpoint, can inject additional headers and smuggle requests to the upstream server.
CVE-2026-7017: HTTP::Tiny versions before 0.095 for Perl forward credential headers to cross-origin redirect targets. When the server returns a 3xx redirect, `_maybe_redirect` follows the `Location:` header and `_prepare_headers_and_cb` re-merges the caller's `headers` argument into the new request, without checking whether the redirect target shares an origin with the original URL. Caller-supplied `Authorization`, `Cookie` and `Proxy-Authorization` headers are therefore re-sent to whatever host the redirect names, across scheme, host or port boundaries, and including `https` to `http` downgrades that expose them in plaintext on the wire. The HTTP::Tiny POD note that "Authorization headers will not be included in a redirected request" applied only to the URL-userinfo Basic-auth path, not to headers passed explicitly by the caller.
CVE-2025-15649: IO::Uncompress::Unzip versions before 2.215 for Perl propagate uncaught exception when parsing zip header with malformed DOS date. _dosToUnixTime() decodes the local-file-header last-modification date field and calls Time::Local::timelocal() without an eval guard. A header whose date field decodes to an out-of-range month, day, or hour causes timelocal() to die. The exception propagates out of IO::Uncompress::Unzip->new($file) where callers expect undef plus $UnzipError.
CVE-2026-12087: Socket versions before 2.041 for Perl have an out-of-bounds heap read. In Socket.xs, pack_ip_mreq_source() checks the length of its source argument before the argument is read, so the check tests the byte length carried over from the preceding multiaddr argument instead. Both addresses occupy a 4-byte field, so a valid multiaddr lets a source of any length pass the check, and the source is then copied into the 4-byte imr_sourceaddr field with a fixed-size copy. A source shorter than 4 bytes is not rejected, and the copy reads up to 3 bytes past the end of its buffer. Calling pack_ip_mreq_source() with a source value shorter than 4 bytes copies adjacent heap memory into the returned packed structure.
CVE-2026-13221: Perl versions through 5.43.9 produce silently incorrect regular expression matches when an alternation of more than 65535 fixed string branches is compiled into a trie in Perl_study_chunk. When such branches are combined into a trie, the delta between the first branch and the shared tail is stored in a 16-bit field. A branch count above 65535 overflows the field, and the trie's match decision table is truncated with no warning or error. A pattern of this shape produces false positive matches (matching strings it should not) and false negative matches (failing to match strings it should). When such a pattern gates an access or filtering decision, the result is wrong.
CVE-2026-15534: Perl versions through 5.45.1 have out-of-bounds heap reads and writes during regular expression matching via an undersized superlinear cache in S_regmatch. The regex engine's superlinear cache holds one bit per subject position for each participating WHILEM node, so the bit count is the subject length plus one times the number of nodes. Nothing checks that product for positive overflow of the signed 32-bit count: a 286331153 byte subject matched against a pattern with 15 participating nodes stores the count as 14, leaving a two byte cache. The cache is then indexed from the real match position and node number, so reads go past the end of the allocation, and on failure CACHEsayNO sets a bit past it. A caller that matches an attacker controlled subject of this size against a pattern of this shape can crash the process or corrupt heap memory.
CVE-2026-19487: Perl versions from 5.9.4 before 5.41.9 produce incorrect regular expression match results when a stale failure flag ends the Aho-Corasick prescan early in S_find_byclass. The prescan walks the subject for positions where the full pattern could match, and the engine tries it from the leftmost one recorded. A failing transition sets the failed flag, and a later successful transition does not clear it, so the prescan reads the stale flag as a failure and stops before it can record a candidate that starts earlier. It takes a subject where one candidate is recorded and a later character then forces a fallback through a fail link that succeeds. Example: "ABCDE" =~ m/ABCF|BCDE|C/; # matches C at offset 2, not BCDE "ABCDE" =~ m/ABCF|BCDE|C(G)/; # no match, BCDE missed An alternation like this can miss input it should match, or match it on the wrong branch, so an access or filtering decision made from the result can be wrong.
CVE-2026-48959: IO::Uncompress::Unzip versions before 2.220 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via per-byte read loop in fastForward. fastForward() compares length $offset (the digit count of the offset, 1 to 19) against the chunk size $c instead of $offset itself, so $c shrinks from 16 KiB to 1-19 bytes per iteration. Extracting a named entry from an attacker supplied zip via IO::Uncompress::Unzip->new($zip, Name => $target) drives a per-byte read loop scaling with the entry's compressed size, up to the non-Zip64 4 GiB cap.
CVE-2026-48961: IO::Compress versions from 2.207 before 2.220 for Perl ship a zipdetails CLI tool that crashes with undefined subroutine on Info-ZIP Unix Extra Field with 8-byte UID or GID. When decode_ux() in bin/zipdetails handles an Info-ZIP Unix Extra Field (tag 0x7875) with UID Size or GID Size set to 8, causing zipdetails to decode an 8-byte UID or GID value, it dispatches through decodeLitteEndian(), which calls a misnamed helper unpackValueQ. The actual function defined in the same file is unpackValue_Q (with underscore); the call raises 'Undefined subroutine &main::unpackValueQ' and the script exits with status 255. Library callers of IO::Compress and IO::Uncompress are not affected; the defect is in the bundled CLI tool.
CVE-2026-48962: IO::Compress versions before 2.220 for Perl can execute arbitrary code in File::GlobMapper via an attacker-controlled output glob. _parseOutputGlob() wraps the caller-supplied output glob string in double quotes and stores it in the parser state; _getFiles() then runs the stored expression through eval STRING. A literal double quote in the output glob closes the dquote wrapper, and the characters that follow are evaluated as Perl. Arbitrary Perl in the output glob executes at the calling process's privilege.
CVE-2026-57432: Perl versions through 5.43.10 have an integer overflow in S_measure_struct leading to an out-of-bounds heap read in pack and unpack. S_measure_struct adds each item's size times its repeat count to a running total with no overflow check, so a large repeat count in a pack or unpack template wraps the signed SSize_t total negative. The @, X, and x position codes then guard their moves with a signed length comparison that passes when the length is negative, advancing the buffer pointer out of bounds. A template derived from untrusted input can read heap memory past the buffer and return it to the caller.
CVE-2026-57433: Storable versions before 3.41 for Perl have a signed integer overflow when deserializing a crafted SX_HOOK record. retrieve_hook_common reads a signed 32-bit item count from an SX_HOOK record and calls av_extend with that count plus one. A count of I32_MAX wraps the addition to a negative value. A crafted blob passed to thaw or retrieve triggers the overflow; av_extend receives the negative count and dies with a panic, terminating the deserialization.

4 issues postponed or untriaged:

CVE-2026-8376: (needs triaging) 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-2026-9538: (postponed; to be fixed through a stable update) Archive::Tar versions before 3.10 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via attacker controlled entry size field in tar header. _read_tar() reads each entry's payload with $handle->read($$data, $block), where $block is derived from the entry's 12-byte size field in the tar header with no upper bound on that value. A crafted header declaring a multi-gigabyte size causes Perl to allocate a scalar of that size.
CVE-2026-42496: (postponed; to be fixed through a stable update) Archive::Tar versions before 3.08 for Perl extract symlinks with attacker controlled targets outside the extraction directory. _make_special_file() passes the tar header's linkname to symlink() without validating it against absolute paths or .. segments. The secure-extract mode check that guards regular file extraction does not cover the symlink target. A subsequent open through the extracted name reads or writes the attacker chosen path.
CVE-2026-42497: (postponed; to be fixed through a stable update) Archive::Tar versions before 3.08 for Perl extract hardlinks to attacker controlled paths outside the extraction directory. _make_special_file() passes the tar header's linkname to link() without validating it against absolute paths or .. segments, creating a hardlink that shares the victim file's inode. A subsequent write through the extracted name modifies the victim file, and the post-extraction chmod, chown, and utime block in _extract_file() (guarded only against symlinks via -l) applies the tar header's mode, owner, and timestamps to the shared inode during extraction alone.

Created: 2026-05-21 Last update: 2026-08-18 11:00

Standards version of the package is outdated. high

The package is severely out of date with respect to the Debian Policy. The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy (Standards-Version 4.7.4 instead of 3.9.8).

Created: 2017-06-21 Last update: 2026-08-18 06:20

Depends on packages which need a new maintainer normal

The packages that perl depends on which need a new maintainer are:

db5.3 (#1055356)
- Depends: libdb5.3t64 libdb5.3t64
db-defaults (#1055344)
- Build-Depends: libdb-dev

Created: 2023-11-04 Last update: 2026-08-24 00:02

The package has not entered testing even though the delay is over normal

The package has not entered testing even though the 5-day delay is over. Check why.

Created: 2026-08-23 Last update: 2026-08-24 00:02

8 bugs tagged patch in the BTS normal

The BTS contains patches fixing 8 bugs, consider including or untagging them.

Created: 2026-08-15 Last update: 2026-08-24 00:00

debian/patches: 34 patches to forward upstream low

Among the 45 debian patches available in version 5.42.3-1 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

34 patches where the metadata indicates that the patch has not yet been forwarded upstream. You should either forward the patch upstream or update the metadata to document its real status.

Created: 2023-02-26 Last update: 2026-08-18 06:30

testing migrations

This package is part of the ongoing testing transition known as auto-upperlimit-perl. Please avoid uploads unrelated to this transition, they would likely delay it and require supplementary work from the release managers. On the other hand, if your package has problems preventing it to migrate to testing, please fix them as soon as possible. You can probably find supplementary information in the debian-release archives or in the corresponding release.debian.org bug.
This package will soon be part of the auto-perl transition. You might want to ensure that your package is ready for it. You can probably find supplementary information in the debian-release archives or in the corresponding release.debian.org bug.
excuses:
- Migrates after: libclass-xsaccessor-perl/amd64, libclass-xsaccessor-perl/arm64, libclass-xsaccessor-perl/armhf, libclass-xsaccessor-perl/i386, libclass-xsaccessor-perl/loong64, libclass-xsaccessor-perl/ppc64el, libclass-xsaccessor-perl/riscv64, libclass-xsaccessor-perl/s390x, libcommon-sense-perl/amd64, libcommon-sense-perl/arm64, libcommon-sense-perl/armhf, libcommon-sense-perl/i386, libcommon-sense-perl/loong64, libcommon-sense-perl/ppc64el, libcommon-sense-perl/riscv64, libcommon-sense-perl/s390x, libdevel-cover-perl/amd64, libdevel-cover-perl/arm64, libdevel-cover-perl/armhf, libdevel-cover-perl/i386, libdevel-cover-perl/loong64, libdevel-cover-perl/ppc64el, libdevel-cover-perl/riscv64, libdevel-cover-perl/s390x, libdevel-mat-dumper-perl/amd64, libdevel-mat-dumper-perl/arm64, libdevel-mat-dumper-perl/armhf, libdevel-mat-dumper-perl/i386, libdevel-mat-dumper-perl/loong64, libdevel-mat-dumper-perl/ppc64el, libdevel-mat-dumper-perl/riscv64, libdevel-mat-dumper-perl/s390x, libpar-packer-perl/amd64, libpar-packer-perl/arm64, libpar-packer-perl/armhf, libpar-packer-perl/i386, libpar-packer-perl/loong64, libpar-packer-perl/ppc64el, libpar-packer-perl/riscv64, libpar-packer-perl/s390x
- Migration status for perl (5.42.2-3 to 5.42.3-1): BLOCKED: Rejected/violates migration policy/introduces a regression
- Issues preventing migration:
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for altree/1.3.2-4: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), s390x: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for asterisk/1:22.10.1+dfsg+~cs6.17.60671434-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, s390x: Test triggered (failure will be ignored)
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for backuppc/4.4.0-11: amd64: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), arm64: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), armhf: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), i386: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), ppc64el: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for cyrus-imapd: arm64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored)
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for hisat2/2.2.1-5: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, s390x: Test triggered (failure will be ignored)
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for libnet-twitter-perl/4.01043-2: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, s390x: Regression ♻ (reference ♻)
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for libsys-sigaction-perl/0.24-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), armhf: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, s390x: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for openbabel/3.1.1+dfsg-14: amd64: Pass, arm64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), armhf: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), s390x: Test triggered (failure will be ignored)
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for perl/5.42.3-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, s390x: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for rshim-user-space/2.5.7+debian-1: amd64: Pass ♻, arm64: Pass ♻ (reference ♻), armhf: Pass ♻ (reference ♻), i386: Pass ♻, ppc64el: Pass ♻ (reference ♻), s390x: Pass ♻
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for rudof/0.3.8+ds-1: amd64: Pass ♻, arm64: Pass ♻ (reference ♻), armhf: Pass ♻ (reference ♻), i386: Pass ♻, ppc64el: Pass ♻ (reference ♻), s390x: Pass ♻
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: perl libclass-xsaccessor-perl/amd64
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: perl libclass-xsaccessor-perl/arm64
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: perl libclass-xsaccessor-perl/armhf
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: perl libclass-xsaccessor-perl/i386
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: perl libclass-xsaccessor-perl/loong64
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: perl libclass-xsaccessor-perl/ppc64el
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: perl libclass-xsaccessor-perl/riscv64
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: perl libclass-xsaccessor-perl/s390x
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: perl libcommon-sense-perl/amd64
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: perl libcommon-sense-perl/arm64
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: perl libcommon-sense-perl/armhf
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: perl libcommon-sense-perl/i386
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: perl libcommon-sense-perl/loong64
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: perl libcommon-sense-perl/ppc64el
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: perl libcommon-sense-perl/riscv64
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: perl libcommon-sense-perl/s390x
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: perl libdevel-cover-perl/amd64
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: perl libdevel-cover-perl/arm64
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: perl libdevel-cover-perl/armhf
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: perl libdevel-cover-perl/i386
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: perl libdevel-cover-perl/loong64
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: perl libdevel-cover-perl/ppc64el
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: perl libdevel-cover-perl/riscv64
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: perl libdevel-cover-perl/s390x
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: perl libdevel-mat-dumper-perl/amd64
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: perl libdevel-mat-dumper-perl/arm64
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: perl libdevel-mat-dumper-perl/armhf
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: perl libdevel-mat-dumper-perl/i386
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: perl libdevel-mat-dumper-perl/loong64
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: perl libdevel-mat-dumper-perl/ppc64el
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: perl libdevel-mat-dumper-perl/riscv64
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: perl libdevel-mat-dumper-perl/s390x
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: perl libpar-packer-perl/amd64
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: perl libpar-packer-perl/arm64
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: perl libpar-packer-perl/armhf
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: perl libpar-packer-perl/i386
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: perl libpar-packer-perl/loong64
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: perl libpar-packer-perl/ppc64el
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: perl libpar-packer-perl/riscv64
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: perl libpar-packer-perl/s390x
- Additional info (not blocking):
- ∙ ∙ Piuparts tested OK - https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/source/p/perl.html
- ∙ ∙ Reproduced on amd64 - info
- ∙ ∙ Reproduced on arm64 - info
- ∙ ∙ Reproduced on armhf - info
- ∙ ∙ Reproduced on i386 - info
- ∙ ∙ 6 days old (needed 5 days)
- Not considered

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[2026-08-17] Accepted perl 5.42.3-1 (source) into unstable (Niko Tyni)
[2026-08-03] Accepted perl 5.44.0-1 (all amd64 source) into experimental (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Niko Tyni)
[2026-08-01] perl 5.42.2-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-07-22] Accepted perl 5.42.2-3 (source) into unstable (Niko Tyni)
[2026-06-13] perl 5.40.1-8 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-06-06] Accepted perl 5.42.2-2 (source) into experimental (Niko Tyni)
[2026-06-06] Accepted perl 5.40.1-8 (source) into unstable (Niko Tyni)
[2026-04-25] Accepted perl 5.42.2-1 (source) into experimental (Niko Tyni)
[2026-04-18] Accepted perl 5.32.1-4+deb11u5 (source) into oldoldstable-security (Sylvain Beucler)
[2025-12-05] perl 5.40.1-7 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-11-17] Accepted perl 5.42.0-3 (source) into experimental (Niko Tyni)
[2025-11-17] Accepted perl 5.40.1-7 (source) into unstable (Niko Tyni)
[2025-08-29] Accepted perl 5.36.0-7+deb12u3 (source) into oldstable-proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Niko Tyni)
[2025-08-24] Accepted perl 5.42.0-2 (source) into experimental (Niko Tyni)
[2025-08-17] Accepted perl 5.42.0-1 (all amd64 source) into experimental (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Niko Tyni)
[2025-07-31] perl 5.40.1-6 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-07-28] Accepted perl 5.40.1-6 (source) into unstable (Niko Tyni)
[2025-07-09] perl 5.40.1-5 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-07-03] Accepted perl 5.40.1-5 (source) into unstable (Niko Tyni)
[2025-06-29] Accepted perl 5.40.1-4 (source) into experimental (Niko Tyni)
[2025-04-15] perl 5.40.1-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-04-14] Accepted perl 5.36.0-7+deb12u2 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Niko Tyni)
[2025-04-13] Accepted perl 5.40.1-3 (source) into unstable (Niko Tyni)
[2025-04-13] Accepted perl 5.36.0-7+deb12u2 (source) into stable-security (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Niko Tyni)
[2025-02-21] perl 5.40.1-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-02-16] Accepted perl 5.40.1-2 (source) into unstable (Niko Tyni)
[2025-01-19] Accepted perl 5.40.1-1 (source) into experimental (Niko Tyni)
[2024-11-29] perl 5.40.0-8 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-11-23] Accepted perl 5.40.0-8 (source) into unstable (Niko Tyni)
[2024-11-11] perl 5.40.0-7 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)

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all: 220 226
RC: 0
I&N: 80 82
M&W: 140 144
F&P: 0
patch: 8

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