Hi, The following vulnerability was published for perl. No urgency here, but filling a bug for reference. CVE-2026-8376[0]: | Buffer overflow in Perl_study_chunk If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-8376 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-8376 [1] https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/24433 Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed. Regards, Salvatore
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
perl, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 1137345@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
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Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org> (supplier of updated perl package)
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Format: 1.8
Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:22:29 +0300
Source: perl
Architecture: source
Version: 5.40.1-8
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
Changed-By: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
Closes: 1137345 1138854 1138855 1138856 1138858 1138863 1138905 1138906
Changes:
perl (5.40.1-8) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* [SECURITY] backport various fixes from upstream:
+ CVE-2025-15649: header parsing in IO::Uncompress::Unzip.
(Closes: #1138863)
+ CVE-2026-7010: CRLF-validation in HTTP::Tiny.
(Closes: #1138858)
+ CVE-2026-8376: Buffer overflow in Perl_study_chunk.
(Closes: #1137345)
+ CVE-2026-48959: CPU exhaustion in IO::Uncompress::Unzip.
(Closes: #1138856)
+ CVE-2026-48961: crash in zipdetails.
(Closes: #1138855)
+ CVE-2026-48962: code execution in IO-Compress via output globs.
(Closes: #1138854)
+ buffer overflows in pack().
(Closes: #1138905)
+ buffer overflow in Storable.
(Closes: #1138906)
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We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
perl, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 1137345@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org> (supplier of updated perl package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)
Format: 1.8
Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:02:30 +0300
Source: perl
Architecture: source
Version: 5.42.2-2
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
Changed-By: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
Closes: 1137345 1138854 1138855 1138856 1138858 1138863 1138905 1138906
Changes:
perl (5.42.2-2) experimental; urgency=medium
.
* [SECURITY] backport various fixes from upstream:
+ CVE-2025-15649: header parsing in IO::Uncompress::Unzip.
(Closes: #1138863)
+ CVE-2026-7010: CRLF-validation in HTTP::Tiny.
(Closes: #1138858)
+ CVE-2026-8376: Buffer overflow in Perl_study_chunk.
(Closes: #1137345)
+ CVE-2026-48959: CPU exhaustion in IO::Uncompress::Unzip.
(Closes: #1138856)
+ CVE-2026-48961: crash in zipdetails.
(Closes: #1138855)
+ CVE-2026-48962: code execution in IO-Compress via output globs.
(Closes: #1138854)
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(Closes: #1138905)
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(Closes: #1138906)
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