{ "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": "IO::Uncompress::Unzip versions before 2.220 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via per-byte read loop in fastForward. fastForward() compares length $offset (the digit count of the offset, 1 to 19) against the chunk size $c instead of $offset itself, so $c shrinks from 16 KiB to 1-19 bytes per iteration. Extracting a named entry from an attacker supplied zip via IO::Uncompress::Unzip->new($zip, Name => $target) drives a per-byte read loop scaling with the entry's compressed size, up to the non-Zip64 4 GiB cap.", "title": "Vulnerability Description" } ], "publisher": { "category": "other", "contact_details": "gdt@cpan.org", "name": "giterlizzi", "namespace": "https://github.com/giterlizzi/" }, "references": [ { "category": "self", "summary": "CPANSA-IO-Compress-2026-48959 JSON", "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/giterlizzi/perl-CPANSA-CSAF/develop/csaf/white/2026/cpansa-io-compress-2026-48959.json" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://github.com/pmqs/IO-Compress/commit/68db44076f4c1a86a2ffe53a958eac6cabaf72e2.patch", "url": "https://github.com/pmqs/IO-Compress/commit/68db44076f4c1a86a2ffe53a958eac6cabaf72e2.patch" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://metacpan.org/release/PMQS/IO-Compress-2.220/changes", "url": "https://metacpan.org/release/PMQS/IO-Compress-2.220/changes" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/27/2", "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/27/2" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "CVE-2026-48959 (NVD)", "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-48959" } ], "title": "IO-Compress vulnerability", "tracking": { "current_release_date": "2026-05-27T00:00:00", "generator": { "engine": { "name": "CSAF Perl Toolkit", "version": "0.26" } }, "id": "CPANSA-IO-Compress-2026-48959", "initial_release_date": "2026-05-27T00:00:00", "revision_history": [ { "date": "2026-05-27T00:00:00", "number": "1", "summary": "First release" } ], "status": "final", "version": "1" } }, "product_tree": { "branches": [ { "branches": [ { "category": "product_version_range", "name": "vers:cpan/<2.220", "product": { "name": "IO-Compress less than 2.220", "product_id": "CSAFPID-0001", "product_identification_helper": { "purl": "pkg:cpan/IO-Compress" } } }, { "category": "product_version_range", "name": "vers:cpan/>=2.220", "product": { "name": "IO-Compress greater than or equal 2.220", "product_id": "CSAFPID-0002", "product_identification_helper": { "purl": "pkg:cpan/IO-Compress" } } } ], "category": "product_name", "name": "IO-Compress" } ] }, "vulnerabilities": [ { "cve": "CVE-2026-48959", "cwe": { "id": "CWE-407", "name": "Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity" }, "notes": [ { "category": "description", "text": "IO::Uncompress::Unzip versions before 2.220 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via per-byte read loop in fastForward.\n\nfastForward() compares length $offset (the digit count of the offset, 1 to 19) against the chunk size $c instead of $offset itself, so $c shrinks from 16 KiB to 1-19 bytes per iteration.\n\nExtracting a named entry from an attacker supplied zip via IO::Uncompress::Unzip->new($zip, Name => $target) drives a per-byte read loop scaling with the entry's compressed size, up to the non-Zip64 4 GiB cap.", "title": "Vulnerability Description" } ], "product_status": { "fixed": [ "CSAFPID-0002" ], "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" ] } ] } ] }