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Security Advisories (18)
CVE-2020-12723 (2020-06-05)

regcomp.c in Perl before 5.30.3 allows a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression because of recursive S_study_chunk calls.

CVE-2020-10878 (2020-06-05)

Perl before 5.30.3 has an integer overflow related to mishandling of a "PL_regkind[OP(n)] == NOTHING" situation. A crafted regular expression could lead to malformed bytecode with a possibility of instruction injection.

CVE-2020-10543 (2020-06-05)

Perl before 5.30.3 on 32-bit platforms allows a heap-based buffer overflow because nested regular expression quantifiers have an integer overflow.

CVE-2018-6913 (2018-04-17)

Heap-based buffer overflow in the pack function in Perl before 5.26.2 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large item count.

CVE-2018-18314 (2018-12-07)

Perl before 5.26.3 has a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression that triggers invalid write operations.

CVE-2018-18313 (2018-12-07)

Perl before 5.26.3 has a buffer over-read via a crafted regular expression that triggers disclosure of sensitive information from process memory.

CVE-2018-18312 (2018-12-05)

Perl before 5.26.3 and 5.28.0 before 5.28.1 has a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression that triggers invalid write operations.

CVE-2018-18311 (2018-12-07)

Perl before 5.26.3 and 5.28.x before 5.28.1 has a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression that triggers invalid write operations.

CVE-2015-8853 (2016-05-25)

The (1) S_reghop3, (2) S_reghop4, and (3) S_reghopmaybe3 functions in regexec.c in Perl before 5.24.0 allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via crafted utf-8 data, as demonstrated by "a\x80."

CVE-2013-1667 (2013-03-14)

The rehash mechanism in Perl 5.8.2 through 5.16.x allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) via a crafted hash key.

CVE-2012-5195 (2012-12-18)

Heap-based buffer overflow in the Perl_repeatcpy function in util.c in Perl 5.12.x before 5.12.5, 5.14.x before 5.14.3, and 5.15.x before 15.15.5 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via the 'x' string repeat operator.

CVE-2016-2381 (2016-04-08)

Perl might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass the taint protection mechanism in a child process via duplicate environment variables in envp.

CVE-2013-7422 (2015-08-16)

Integer underflow in regcomp.c in Perl before 5.20, as used in Apple OS X before 10.10.5 and other products, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long digit string associated with an invalid backreference within a regular expression.

CVE-2023-47039 (2023-10-30)

Perl for Windows relies on the system path environment variable to find the shell (cmd.exe). When running an executable which uses Windows Perl interpreter, Perl attempts to find and execute cmd.exe within the operating system. However, due to path search order issues, Perl initially looks for cmd.exe in the current working directory. An attacker with limited privileges can exploit this behavior by placing cmd.exe in locations with weak permissions, such as C:\ProgramData. By doing so, when an administrator attempts to use this executable from these compromised locations, arbitrary code can be executed.

CVE-2023-47100

In Perl before 5.38.2, S_parse_uniprop_string in regcomp.c can write to unallocated space because a property name associated with a \p{...} regular expression construct is mishandled. The earliest affected version is 5.30.0.

CVE-2024-56406 (2025-04-13)

A heap buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in Perl. When there are non-ASCII bytes in the left-hand-side of the `tr` operator, `S_do_trans_invmap` can overflow the destination pointer `d`.    $ perl -e '$_ = "\x{FF}" x 1000000; tr/\xFF/\x{100}/;'    Segmentation fault (core dumped) It is believed that this vulnerability can enable Denial of Service and possibly Code Execution attacks on platforms that lack sufficient defenses.

CVE-2016-1238 (2016-08-02)

(1) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptar, (2) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptardiff, (3) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptargrep, (4) cpan/CPAN/scripts/cpan, (5) cpan/Digest-SHA/shasum, (6) cpan/Encode/bin/enc2xs, (7) cpan/Encode/bin/encguess, (8) cpan/Encode/bin/piconv, (9) cpan/Encode/bin/ucmlint, (10) cpan/Encode/bin/unidump, (11) cpan/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/bin/instmodsh, (12) cpan/IO-Compress/bin/zipdetails, (13) cpan/JSON-PP/bin/json_pp, (14) cpan/Test-Harness/bin/prove, (15) dist/ExtUtils-ParseXS/lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp, (16) dist/Module-CoreList/corelist, (17) ext/Pod-Html/bin/pod2html, (18) utils/c2ph.PL, (19) utils/h2ph.PL, (20) utils/h2xs.PL, (21) utils/libnetcfg.PL, (22) utils/perlbug.PL, (23) utils/perldoc.PL, (24) utils/perlivp.PL, and (25) utils/splain.PL in Perl 5.x before 5.22.3-RC2 and 5.24 before 5.24.1-RC2 do not properly remove . (period) characters from the end of the includes directory array, which might allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse module under the current working directory.

CVE-2015-8608 (2017-02-07)

The VDir::MapPathA and VDir::MapPathW functions in Perl 5.22 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted (1) drive letter or (2) pInName argument.

A GUIDE TO WRITING TESTS FOR MODULE::BUILD

This document provides tips on writing new tests for Module::Build. Please note that many existing tests were written prior to these guidelines and have many different styles. Please don't copy/paste old tests by rote without considering better ways to test. See sample.t for a starter test file.

TEST FILE PREAMBLE

Every Module::Build test should begin with the same preamble to ensure that the test library is set properly and that the correct version of Module::Build is being tested.

use strict;
use lib 't/lib';
use MBTest tests => 2; # or 'no_plan'

blib_load('Module::Build');

The MBTest module is in t/lib/ and subclasses Test::More. When loaded it cleans up several environment variables that could cause problems, tweaks @INC and exports several helper functions. See that module for details.

CREATING A TEST DISTRIBUTION

The DistGen module in t/lib/ should be used to create sample distributions for testing. It provides numerous helpful methods to create a skeleton distribution, add files, change files, and so on. Run perldoc on t/lib/DistGen.pm to see the documentation.

# CREATE A TEST DISTRIBUTION

use DistGen;

# create dist object in a temp directory
my $dist = DistGen->new;

# enter the test distribution directory before further testing
$dist->chdir_in;

# generate the skeleton files
$dist->regen;

GETTING A MODULE::BUILD OBJECT

From inside the test distribution, you can get the Module::Build object configured in Build.PL using the new_from_context method on the dist object. This is just like Module::Build's new_from_context except it passes quiet => 1 to avoid sending output to the terminal. Use the Module::Build object to test the programmatic API.

my $mb = $dist->new_from_context( quiet => 1 );
isa_ok( $mb, "Module::Build" );
is( $mb->dist_name, "Simple", "dist_name is 'Simple'" );

TESTING THE COMMAND LINE API

The command line API is tested by running subprocesses, not via a Module::Build object. The DistGen object has helper methods for running Build.PL and Build and passing arguments on the command line.

$dist->run_build_pl( '--quiet' );
$dist->run_build( 'test' );

TYPICAL TESTING CYCLE

The typical testing cycle is to generate or modify a test distribution, either through the DistGen object or directly in the filesystem, then regenerate the distribution and test it (or run command line tests and observe the result.)

# Modify the distribution

$dist->change_build_pl(
  {
    module_name   => $dist->name,
    license       => 'artistic',
  }
);
$dist->regen;

# Get a new build object and test it

$mb = $dist->new_from_context;
is( $mb->license, "artistic", "saw 'artistic' license" );

COPYRIGHT

This documentation is Copyright (C) 2009 by David Golden. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl 5.10.0.