GHSA-qcgj-vx8w-rqfqunknown
Pod::Text versions before 6.1.1 for Perl allow CPU and memory exhaustion formatting a POD...
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
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.
🔗 References (6)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-82560
- https://github.com/rra/podlators/commit/70510174f69eb54aa6d617bde4e1402cd9b7c61f.patch
- https://metacpan.org/release/RRA/podlators-v6.1.0/source/lib/Pod/Text.pm#L245-261
- https://metacpan.org/release/RRA/podlators-v6.1.1/changes
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/09/19/6
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qcgj-vx8w-rqfq