Security Advisories (1)
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.

SYNOPSIS

./perl -Ilib Porting/makemeta

OPTIONS

-y

Update only META.yml

The default is to update both, META.yml and META.json

-n

Don't update any files, exit with 1 if changes would be made

-b

No-op, kept for historical purposes

1 POD Error

The following errors were encountered while parsing the POD:

Around line 29:

'=item' outside of any '=over'

=over without closing =back