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CVE-2025-40909 (2025-05-30)

Perl threads have a working directory race condition where file operations may target unintended paths. If a directory handle is open at thread creation, the process-wide current working directory is temporarily changed in order to clone that handle for the new thread, which is visible from any third (or more) thread already running. This may lead to unintended operations such as loading code or accessing files from unexpected locations, which a local attacker may be able to exploit. The bug was introduced in commit 11a11ecf4bea72b17d250cfb43c897be1341861e and released in Perl version 5.13.6

NAME

TAP::Parser::SourceHandler::Perl - Stream TAP from a Perl executable

VERSION

Version 3.48

SYNOPSIS

use TAP::Parser::Source;
use TAP::Parser::SourceHandler::Perl;

my $source = TAP::Parser::Source->new->raw( \'script.pl' );
$source->assemble_meta;

my $class = 'TAP::Parser::SourceHandler::Perl';
my $vote  = $class->can_handle( $source );
my $iter  = $class->make_iterator( $source );

DESCRIPTION

This is a Perl TAP::Parser::SourceHandler - it has 2 jobs:

1. Figure out if the TAP::Parser::Source it's given is actually a Perl script ("can_handle").

2. Creates an iterator for Perl sources ("make_iterator").

Unless you're writing a plugin or subclassing TAP::Parser, you probably won't need to use this module directly.

METHODS

Class Methods

can_handle

my $vote = $class->can_handle( $source );

Only votes if $source looks like a file. Casts the following votes:

0.9  if it has a shebang ala "#!...perl"
0.3  if it has any shebang
0.8  if it's a .t file
0.9  if it's a .pl file
0.75 if it's in a 't' directory
0.25 by default (backwards compat)

make_iterator

my $iterator = $class->make_iterator( $source );

Constructs & returns a new TAP::Parser::Iterator::Process for the source. Assumes $source->raw contains a reference to the perl script. croaks if the file could not be found.

The command to run is built as follows:

$perl @switches $perl_script @test_args

The perl command to use is determined by "get_perl". The command generated is guaranteed to preserve:

PERL5LIB
PERL5OPT
Taint Mode, if set in the script's shebang

Note: the command generated will not respect any shebang line defined in your Perl script. This is only a problem if you have compiled a custom version of Perl or if you want to use a specific version of Perl for one test and a different version for another, for example:

#!/path/to/a/custom_perl --some --args
#!/usr/local/perl-5.6/bin/perl -w

Currently you need to write a plugin to get around this.

get_taint

Decode any taint switches from a Perl shebang line.

# $taint will be 't'
my $taint = TAP::Parser::SourceHandler::Perl->get_taint( '#!/usr/bin/perl -t' );

# $untaint will be undefined
my $untaint = TAP::Parser::SourceHandler::Perl->get_taint( '#!/usr/bin/perl' );

get_perl

Gets the version of Perl currently running the test suite.

SUBCLASSING

Please see "SUBCLASSING" in TAP::Parser for a subclassing overview.

Example

  package MyPerlSourceHandler;

  use strict;

  use TAP::Parser::SourceHandler::Perl;

  use base 'TAP::Parser::SourceHandler::Perl';

  # use the version of perl from the shebang line in the test file
  sub get_perl {
      my $self = shift;
      if (my $shebang = $self->shebang( $self->{file} )) {
          $shebang =~ /^#!(.*\bperl.*?)(?:(?:\s)|(?:$))/;
	  return $1 if $1;
      }
      return $self->SUPER::get_perl(@_);
  }

SEE ALSO

TAP::Object, TAP::Parser, TAP::Parser::IteratorFactory, TAP::Parser::SourceHandler, TAP::Parser::SourceHandler::Executable, TAP::Parser::SourceHandler::File, TAP::Parser::SourceHandler::Handle, TAP::Parser::SourceHandler::RawTAP