{ "document": { "category": "csaf_security_advisory", "csaf_version": "2.0", "distribution": { "tlp": { "label": "WHITE", "url": "https://www.first.org/tlp/" } }, "lang": "en", "notes": [ { "category": "description", "text": "CryptX versions before 0.088_001 for Perl have a stack buffer overflow in four AEAD decrypt_verify helpers. The gcm_decrypt_verify, ccm_decrypt_verify, chacha20poly1305_decrypt_verify and eax_decrypt_verify XS routines copied the caller-supplied authentication tag into a fixed 144-byte stack buffer (MAXBLOCKSIZE) without checking the supplied length. A longer tag overwrites the stack past the buffer. Version 0.088 added the clamp to gcm_decrypt_verify, and 0.088_001 added it to the other three. Any caller of an affected helper that forwards an attacker-controlled tag longer than the buffer can trigger the overflow.", "title": "Vulnerability Description" } ], "publisher": { "category": "other", "contact_details": "gdt@cpan.org", "name": "giterlizzi", "namespace": "https://github.com/giterlizzi/" }, "references": [ { "category": "self", "summary": "CPANSA-CryptX-2026-41565 JSON", "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/giterlizzi/perl-CPANSA-CSAF/develop/csaf/white/2026/cpansa-cryptx-2026-41565.json" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://github.com/DCIT/perl-CryptX/commit/57e69e541b0718ca8724c2f61514322a2d859bc1.patch", "url": "https://github.com/DCIT/perl-CryptX/commit/57e69e541b0718ca8724c2f61514322a2d859bc1.patch" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://github.com/DCIT/perl-CryptX/commit/7e56347d420aaf43b2ee1586f4a230492ccf1642.patch", "url": "https://github.com/DCIT/perl-CryptX/commit/7e56347d420aaf43b2ee1586f4a230492ccf1642.patch" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://metacpan.org/release/MIK/CryptX-0.088_001", "url": "https://metacpan.org/release/MIK/CryptX-0.088_001" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/28/10", "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/28/10" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "CVE-2026-41565 (NVD)", "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-41565" } ], "title": "CryptX vulnerability", "tracking": { "current_release_date": "2026-05-28T00:00:00", "generator": { "engine": { "name": "CSAF Perl Toolkit", "version": "0.26" } }, "id": "CPANSA-CryptX-2026-41565", "initial_release_date": "2026-05-28T00:00:00", "revision_history": [ { "date": "2026-05-28T00:00:00", "number": "1", "summary": "First release" } ], "status": "final", "version": "1" } }, "product_tree": { "branches": [ { "branches": [ { "category": "product_version_range", "name": "vers:cpan/>0", "product": { "name": "CryptX greater than 0", "product_id": "CSAFPID-0001", "product_identification_helper": { "purl": "pkg:cpan/CryptX" } } } ], "category": "product_name", "name": "CryptX" } ] }, "vulnerabilities": [ { "cve": "CVE-2026-41565", "cwe": { "id": "CWE-121", "name": "Stack-based Buffer Overflow" }, "notes": [ { "category": "description", "text": "CryptX versions before 0.088_001 for Perl have a stack buffer overflow in four AEAD decrypt_verify helpers.\n\nThe gcm_decrypt_verify, ccm_decrypt_verify, chacha20poly1305_decrypt_verify and eax_decrypt_verify XS routines copied the caller-supplied authentication tag into a fixed 144-byte stack buffer (MAXBLOCKSIZE) without checking the supplied length. A longer tag overwrites the stack past the buffer. Version 0.088 added the clamp to gcm_decrypt_verify, and 0.088_001 added it to the other three.\n\nAny caller of an affected helper that forwards an attacker-controlled tag longer than the buffer can trigger the overflow.", "title": "Vulnerability Description" } ], "product_status": { "known_affected": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] }, "scores": [ { "cvss_v3": { "baseScore": 7.5, "baseSeverity": "HIGH", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H", "version": "3.1" }, "products": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] } ] } ] }