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CVE-2026-15534 (GCVE-0-2026-15534)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-09 17:49 – Updated: 2026-08-09 22:07

Title

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

Summary

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.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-190 - Integer Overflow or Wraparound
CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds Read
CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds Write

Assigner

CPANSec

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/568e6fd23886…	patch
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/54cf3d44cbbe…	patch
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/0…
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/0…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
LEONT	perl	Affected: 0 , ≤ 5.45.1 (custom)

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GHSA-2CXW-QMFC-3VX3

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-09 18:30 – Updated: 2026-08-10 00:31

Details

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.

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CVE-2026-15534 (GCVE-0-2026-15534)

GHSA-2CXW-QMFC-3VX3

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