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Security Advisories (2)
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.

CVE-2026-8376 (2026-05-25)

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::Result::Comment - Comment result token.

VERSION

Version 3.50

DESCRIPTION

This is a subclass of TAP::Parser::Result. A token of this class will be returned if a comment line is encountered.

1..1
ok 1 - woo hooo!
# this is a comment

OVERRIDDEN METHODS

Mainly listed here to shut up the pitiful screams of the pod coverage tests. They keep me awake at night.

  • as_string

    Note that this method merely returns the comment preceded by a '# '.

Instance Methods

comment

if ( $result->is_comment ) {
    my $comment = $result->comment;
    print "I have something to say:  $comment";
}