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perl-5.34.0-RC2
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Security Advisories (6)
CVE-2022-48522 (2023-08-22)

In Perl 5.34.0, function S_find_uninit_var in sv.c has a stack-based crash that can lead to remote code execution or local privilege escalation.

CVE-2023-47038 (2023-10-30)

A crafted regular expression when compiled by perl 5.30.0 through 5.38.0 can cause a one attacker controlled byte buffer overflow in a heap allocated buffer

CVE-2024-56406 (2025-04-13)

A heap buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in Perl. Release branches 5.34, 5.36, 5.38 and 5.40 are affected, including development versions from 5.33.1 through 5.41.10. When there are non-ASCII bytes in the left-hand-side of the `tr` operator, `S_do_trans_invmap` can overflow the destination pointer `d`.    $ perl -e '$_ = "\x{FF}" x 1000000; tr/\xFF/\x{100}/;'    Segmentation fault (core dumped) It is believed that this vulnerability can enable Denial of Service and possibly Code Execution attacks on platforms that lack sufficient defenses.

CVE-2023-47100

In Perl before 5.38.2, S_parse_uniprop_string in regcomp.c can write to unallocated space because a property name associated with a \p{...} regular expression construct is mishandled. The earliest affected version is 5.30.0.

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-2023-47039 (2023-10-30)

Perl for Windows relies on the system path environment variable to find the shell (cmd.exe). When running an executable which uses Windows Perl interpreter, Perl attempts to find and execute cmd.exe within the operating system. However, due to path search order issues, Perl initially looks for cmd.exe in the current working directory. An attacker with limited privileges can exploit this behavior by placing cmd.exe in locations with weak permissions, such as C:\ProgramData. By doing so, when an administrator attempts to use this executable from these compromised locations, arbitrary code can be executed.

NAME

CPAN::Meta::Merge - Merging CPAN Meta fragments

VERSION

version 2.150010

SYNOPSIS

my $merger = CPAN::Meta::Merge->new(default_version => "2");
my $meta = $merger->merge($base, @additional);

DESCRIPTION

METHODS

new

This creates a CPAN::Meta::Merge object. It takes one mandatory named argument, version, declaring the version of the meta-spec that must be used for the merge. It can optionally take an extra_mappings argument that allows one to add additional merging functions for specific elements.

The extra_mappings arguments takes a hash ref with the same type of structure as described in CPAN::Meta::Spec, except with its values as one of the defined merge strategies or a code ref to a merging function.

my $merger = CPAN::Meta::Merge->new(
    default_version => '2',
    extra_mappings => {
        'optional_features' => \&custom_merge_function,
        'x_custom' => 'set_addition',
        'x_meta_meta' => {
            name => 'identical',
            tags => 'set_addition',
        }
    }
);

merge(@fragments)

Merge all @fragments together. It will accept both CPAN::Meta objects and (possibly incomplete) hashrefs of metadata.

MERGE STRATEGIES

merge uses various strategies to combine different elements of the CPAN::Meta objects. The following strategies can be used with the extra_mappings argument of new:

identical

The elements must be identical

set_addition

The union of two array refs

[ a, b ] U [ a, c]  = [ a, b, c ]
uniq_map

Key value pairs from the right hash are merged to the left hash. Key collisions are only allowed if their values are the same. This merge function will recurse into nested hash refs following the same merge rules.

improvise

This merge strategy will try to pick the appropriate predefined strategy based on what element type. Array refs will try to use the set_addition strategy, Hash refs will try to use the uniq_map strategy, and everything else will try the identical strategy.

AUTHORS

  • David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org>

  • Ricardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org>

  • Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2010 by David Golden, Ricardo Signes, Adam Kennedy and Contributors.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.