CVE-2026-8376

Description

Perl versions before 5.40.5-RC1, from 5.41.0 before 5.42.3-RC1, from 5.43.0 before 5.43.11 have a heap buffer overflow when compiling regular expressions with a repeated fixed string on 32-bit builds. Perl_study_chunk in regcomp_study.c checked the size of the joined substring buffer in characters rather than bytes. For a quantified fixed substring with a large minimum count, the byte length mincount * l could overflow SSize_t, producing an undersized SvGROW allocation; the subsequent copy writes past the end of the buffer. A caller that compiles an attacker-controlled regular expression on a 32-bit perl build triggers a heap buffer overflow at compile time.

Weakness classification

• CWE-680: Integer Overflow to Buffer Overflow

Primary references

• 9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e — Patch
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory