Security Advisories (1)
CVE-2020-36846 (2025-05-30)

A buffer overflow, as described in CVE-2020-8927, exists in the embedded Brotli library.  Versions of IO::Compress::Brotli prior to 0.007 included a version of the brotli library prior to version 1.0.8, where an attacker controlling the input length of a "one-shot" decompression request to a script can trigger a crash, which happens when copying over chunks of data larger than 2 GiB. It is recommended to update your IO::Compress::Brotli module to 0.007 or later. If one cannot update, we recommend to use the "streaming" API as opposed to the "one-shot" API, and impose chunk size limits.

Changes for version 0.006 - 2023-10-24

  • New Maintainer TIMLEGGE
  • Update included Brotli library to v1.1.0
  • Installation now requires cmake version 3. Alien::cmake3 used if there is no system cmake
  • Unreleased 0.004_002 changes

Modules

Write Brotli buffers/streams
Read Brotli buffers/streams