FKIE_CVE-2026-7040

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-04-27 13:16 - Updated: 2026-05-07 02:20
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
Text::Minify::XS versions from 0.3.0 before 0.7.8 for Perl have a heap overflow when processing some malformed UTF-8 characters. The minify functions mishandled some malformed UTF-8 characters, leading to heap corruption. Note that the minify_utf8 function is an alias for minify.
References
9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441ehttps://github.com/robrwo/Text-Minify-XS/security/advisories/GHSA-jqhf-vv4h-77h2Third Party Advisory
9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441ehttps://metacpan.org/release/RRWO/Text-Minify-XS-v0.7.8/changesProduct, Release Notes
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/27/5Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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  "lastModified": "2026-05-07T02:20:57.817",
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          "confidentialityImpact": "NONE",
          "integrityImpact": "NONE",
          "privilegesRequired": "NONE",
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