CVE-2026-48959 (GCVE-0-2026-48959)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-27 02:29 – Updated: 2026-05-27 07:24
VLAI
Title
IO::Uncompress::Unzip versions before 2.220 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via per-byte read loop in fastForward
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- CWE-407 - Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/pmqs/IO-Compress/commit/68db44… | patch |
| https://metacpan.org/release/PMQS/IO-Compress-2.2… | release-notes |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| PMQS | IO::Uncompress::Unzip |
Affected:
0 , < 2.220
(custom)
|
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