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CVE-2026-4176 (2026-03-29)

Perl versions from 5.9.4 before 5.40.4-RC1, from 5.41.0 before 5.42.2-RC1, from 5.43.0 before 5.43.9 contain a vulnerable version of Compress::Raw::Zlib. Compress::Raw::Zlib is included in the Perl package as a dual-life core module, and is vulnerable to CVE-2026-3381 due to a vendored version of zlib which has several vulnerabilities, including CVE-2026-27171. The bundled Compress::Raw::Zlib was updated to version 2.221 in Perl blead commit c75ae9cc164205e1b6d6dbd57bd2c65c8593fe94.

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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.

NAME

TAP::Parser::Iterator::Process - Iterator for process-based TAP sources

VERSION

Version 3.50

SYNOPSIS

use TAP::Parser::Iterator::Process;
my %args = (
 command  => ['python', 'setup.py', 'test'],
 merge    => 1,
 setup    => sub { ... },
 teardown => sub { ... },
);
my $it   = TAP::Parser::Iterator::Process->new(\%args);
my $line = $it->next;

DESCRIPTION

This is a simple iterator wrapper for executing external processes, used by TAP::Parser. Unless you're writing a plugin or subclassing, you probably won't need to use this module directly.

METHODS

Class Methods

new

Create an iterator. Expects one argument containing a hashref of the form:

command  => \@command_to_execute
merge    => $attempt_merge_stderr_and_stdout?
setup    => $callback_to_setup_command
teardown => $callback_to_teardown_command

Tries to uses IPC::Open3 & IO::Select to communicate with the spawned process if they are available. Falls back onto open().

Instance Methods

next

Iterate through the process output, of course.

next_raw

Iterate raw input without applying any fixes for quirky input syntax.

wait

Get the wait status for this iterator's process.

exit

Get the exit status for this iterator's process.

handle_unicode

Upgrade the input stream to handle UTF8.

get_select_handles

Return a list of filehandles that may be used upstream in a select() call to signal that this Iterator is ready. Iterators that are not handle based should return an empty list.

ATTRIBUTION

Originally ripped off from Test::Harness.

SEE ALSO

TAP::Object, TAP::Parser, TAP::Parser::Iterator,