Source: perl Version: 5.42.3-1 Severity: important Tags: security upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], Debian Security Team <[email protected]>
Hi, The following vulnerability was published for perl. CVE-2026-82560[0]: | Pod::Text versions before 6.1.1 for Perl allow CPU and memory | exhaustion formatting a POD document whose =over nesting drives the | margin to the output width. Each =over adds its indent to the | margin, which wrap() subtracts from the output width to get the | space available for text. When that space reaches zero, the line- | splitting substitution matches the empty string, and the loop | consumes no input while appending the margin padding on every pass. | Formatting an attacker-supplied POD document never returns, and the | output grows until memory is exhausted. If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-82560 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-82560 [1] https://lists.security.metacpan.org/cve-announce/msg/43682367/ Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed. Regards, Salvatore
