Security Advisories (3)
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-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

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

Test2::Manual::Tooling::Plugin::TestingDone - Run code when the test file is finished, or when done_testing is called.

DESCRIPTION

This is a way to add behavior to the end of a test file. This code is run either when done_testing() is called, or when the test file has no more run-time code to run.

When triggered by done_testing() this will be run BEFORE the plan is calculated and sent. This means it IS safe to make test assertions in this callback.

COMPLETE CODE UP FRONT

package Test2::Plugin::MyPlugin;

use Test2::API qw{test2_add_callback_testing_done};

sub import {
    my $class = shift;

    test2_add_callback_testing_done(sub {
        ok(!$some_global, '$some_global was not set');
        print "The test file is done, or done_testing was just called\n"
    });
}

1;

LINE BY LINE

use Test2::API qw{test2_add_callback_testing_done};

This imports the test2_add_callback_testing_done() callback.

test2_add_callback_testing_done(sub { ... });

This adds our callback to be called when testing is done.

ok(!$some_global, '$some_global was not set')

It is safe to make assertions in this type of callback. This code simply asserts that some global was never set over the course of the test.

This prints a message when the callback is run.

UNDER THE HOOD

Before test2_add_callback_testing_done() this kind of thing was still possible, but it was hard to get right, here is the code to do it:

test2_add_callback_post_load(sub {
    my $stack = test2_stack();

    # Insure we have at least one hub, but we do not necessarily want the
    # one this returns.
    $stack->top;

    # We want the root hub, not the top one.
    my ($root) = Test2::API::test2_stack->all;

    # Make sure the hub does not believe nothing has happened.
    $root->set_active(1);

    # Now we can add our follow-up code
    $root->follow_up(sub {
        # Your callback code here
    });
});

SEE ALSO

Test2::Manual - Primary index of the manual.

SOURCE

The source code repository for Test2-Manual can be found at https://github.com/Test-More/Test2-Suite/.

MAINTAINERS

Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

AUTHORS

Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2018 Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/