CVE-2026-48961 (GCVE-0-2026-48961)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-27 02:34 – Updated: 2026-05-27 07:24
VLAI
Title
IO::Compress versions from 2.207 before 2.220 for Perl ship a zipdetails CLI tool that crashes with undefined subroutine on Info-ZIP Unix Extra Field with 8-byte UID or GID
Summary
IO::Compress versions from 2.207 before 2.220 for Perl ship a zipdetails CLI tool that crashes with undefined subroutine on Info-ZIP Unix Extra Field with 8-byte UID or GID.
When decode_ux() in bin/zipdetails handles an Info-ZIP Unix Extra Field (tag 0x7875) with UID Size or GID Size set to 8, causing zipdetails to decode an 8-byte UID or GID value, it dispatches through decodeLitteEndian(), which calls a misnamed helper unpackValueQ. The actual function defined in the same file is unpackValue_Q (with underscore); the call raises 'Undefined subroutine &main::unpackValueQ' and the script exits with status 255.
Library callers of IO::Compress and IO::Uncompress are not affected; the defect is in the bundled CLI tool.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- CWE-755 - Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/pmqs/IO-Compress/commit/33c89d… | patch |
| https://metacpan.org/release/PMQS/IO-Compress-2.2… | release-notes |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| PMQS | IO::Compress |
Affected:
2.207 , < 2.220
(custom)
|
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