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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-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.

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.

NAME

IPC::SysV - System V IPC constants and system calls

SYNOPSIS

use IPC::SysV qw(IPC_STAT IPC_PRIVATE);

DESCRIPTION

IPC::SysV defines and conditionally exports all the constants defined in your system include files which are needed by the SysV IPC calls. Common ones include

IPC_CREAT IPC_EXCL IPC_NOWAIT IPC_PRIVATE IPC_RMID IPC_SET IPC_STAT
GETVAL SETVAL GETPID GETNCNT GETZCNT GETALL SETALL
SEM_A SEM_R SEM_UNDO
SHM_RDONLY SHM_RND SHMLBA

and auxiliary ones

S_IRUSR S_IWUSR S_IRWXU
S_IRGRP S_IWGRP S_IRWXG
S_IROTH S_IWOTH S_IRWXO

but your system might have more.

ftok( PATH )
ftok( PATH, ID )

Return a key based on PATH and ID, which can be used as a key for msgget, semget and shmget. See ftok(3).

If ID is omitted, it defaults to 1. If a single character is given for ID, the numeric value of that character is used.

shmat( ID, ADDR, FLAG )

Attach the shared memory segment identified by ID to the address space of the calling process. See shmat(2).

ADDR should be undef unless you really know what you're doing.

shmdt( ADDR )

Detach the shared memory segment located at the address specified by ADDR from the address space of the calling process. See shmdt(2).

memread( ADDR, VAR, POS, SIZE )

Reads SIZE bytes from a memory segment at ADDR starting at position POS. VAR must be a variable that will hold the data read. Returns true if successful, or false if there is an error. memread() taints the variable.

memwrite( ADDR, STRING, POS, SIZE )

Writes SIZE bytes from STRING to a memory segment at ADDR starting at position POS. If STRING is too long, only SIZE bytes are used; if STRING is too short, nulls are written to fill out SIZE bytes. Returns true if successful, or false if there is an error.

SEE ALSO

IPC::Msg, IPC::Semaphore, IPC::SharedMem, ftok(3), shmat(2), shmdt(2)

AUTHORS

Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>, Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>, Marcus Holland-Moritz <mhx@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

Version 2.x, Copyright (C) 2007-2013, Marcus Holland-Moritz.

Version 1.x, Copyright (c) 1997, Graham Barr.

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