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CVE-2026-15534 (2026-08-09)

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.

NAME

TAP::Parser::Multiplexer - Multiplex multiple TAP::Parsers

VERSION

Version 3.52

SYNOPSIS

use TAP::Parser::Multiplexer;

my $mux = TAP::Parser::Multiplexer->new;
$mux->add( $parser1, $stash1 );
$mux->add( $parser2, $stash2 );
while ( my ( $parser, $stash, $result ) = $mux->next ) {
    # do stuff
}

DESCRIPTION

TAP::Parser::Multiplexer gathers input from multiple TAP::Parsers. Internally it calls select on the input file handles for those parsers to wait for one or more of them to have input available.

See TAP::Harness for an example of its use.

METHODS

Class Methods

new

my $mux = TAP::Parser::Multiplexer->new;

Returns a new TAP::Parser::Multiplexer object.

Instance Methods

add

$mux->add( $parser, $stash );

Add a TAP::Parser to the multiplexer. $stash is an optional opaque reference that will be returned from next along with the parser and the next result.

parsers

my $count   = $mux->parsers;

Returns the number of parsers. Parsers are removed from the multiplexer when their input is exhausted.

next

Return a result from the next available parser. Returns a list containing the parser from which the result came, the stash that corresponds with that parser and the result.

my ( $parser, $stash, $result ) = $mux->next;

If $result is undefined the corresponding parser has reached the end of its input (and will automatically be removed from the multiplexer).

When all parsers are exhausted an empty list will be returned.

if ( my ( $parser, $stash, $result ) = $mux->next ) {
    if ( ! defined $result ) {
        # End of this parser
    }
    else {
        # Process result
    }
}
else {
    # All parsers finished
}

See Also

TAP::Parser

TAP::Harness