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perl-5.45.1
⭐ Starred 2013 / Tie::StdHandle
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.

NAME

Tie::StdHandle - base class definitions for tied handles

SYNOPSIS

package NewHandle;
require Tie::Handle;

@ISA = qw(Tie::Handle);

sub READ { ... }		# Provide a needed method
sub TIEHANDLE { ... }	# Overrides inherited method


package main;

tie *FH, 'NewHandle';

DESCRIPTION

The Tie::StdHandle package provide most methods for file handles described in perltie (the exceptions are UNTIE and DESTROY). It causes tied file handles to behave exactly like standard file handles and allow for selective overwriting of methods.