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CVE-2026-129113 (GCVE-0-2026-129113)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-11-14 11:53 – Updated: 2026-11-14 11:53

Title

JSON::XS versions from 4.0_00 before 4.05 for Perl corrupt the incremental buffer length by chopping past its end in incr_skip after a top-level number

Summary

JSON::XS versions from 4.0_00 before 4.05 for Perl corrupt the incremental buffer length by chopping past its end in incr_skip after a top-level number. The incremental parser scans any run of digits, signs, dots and exponent markers as one number, but the decoder stops at the end of a valid number, so the parser keeps an offset into bytes it has not decoded. It then empties the buffer without clearing those bytes, and a later incr_parse call without new input reads them again and moves the offset past the end of the buffer. incr_skip, the documented recovery after an error, removes that many bytes and the buffer length wraps. A peer sending input such as "1-2" to an incr_parse consumer can make the next read of incr_text exit the process through perl's uncatchable out-of-memory path.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-191 - Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound)

Assigner

CPANSec CNA under the redhat root

CNA scorecard C 61/100 over 359 records in the last 180 days details

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://metacpan.org/release/MLEHMANN/JSON-XS-4.0…	release-notes

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
		Affected: 4.0_00 , < 4.05 (custom)

Credits

Albert Gierlach (rivit)

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GHSA-4Q52-849C-CV9P

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-11-14 12:31 – Updated: 2026-11-14 12:31

Details

JSON::XS versions from 4.0_00 before 4.05 for Perl corrupt the incremental buffer length by chopping past its end in incr_skip after a top-level number.

The incremental parser scans any run of digits, signs, dots and exponent markers as one number, but the decoder stops at the end of a valid number, so the parser keeps an offset into bytes it has not decoded. It then empties the buffer without clearing those bytes, and a later incr_parse call without new input reads them again and moves the offset past the end of the buffer. incr_skip, the documented recovery after an error, removes that many bytes and the buffer length wraps.

A peer sending input such as "1-2" to an incr_parse consumer can make the next read of incr_text exit the process through perl's uncatchable out-of-memory path.

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Solutions

CNA · CPANSec

Upgrade to JSON-XS 4.05 or later.

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