Bug 2556463

Summary: CVE-2026-110673 perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS: Stack exhaustion via nested tagged values under allow_tags [epel-all]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora EPEL Reporter: Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component: perl-Cpanel-JSON-XSAssignee: Paul Howarth <paul>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: epel10CC: paul, perl-devel
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Fixed In Version: perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.80-1.el10_4 perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.80-1.el10_2 perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.80-1.el10_3 perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.80-1.el9 perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.80-1.el8 Doc Type: ---
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2026-10-20 20:47:48 UTC
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

Cpanel::JSON::XS versions before 4.80 for Perl allow stack exhaustion via nested tagged values under allow_tags in decode_tag.

With allow_tags, "(" starts a tagged value. Its tag and value are decoded recursively, and each can start another tagged value. Unlike arrays and objects, this nesting is not counted against max_depth.

A run of "(" bytes exhausts the C stack and triggers an uncatchable segmentation fault regardless of max_depth.

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2026-10-21 07:41:21 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-672076fdc0 (perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.80-1.el10_4) has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 10.4.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2026-672076fdc0

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2026-10-21 08:03:25 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-3b3b4740ca (perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.80-1.el10_3) has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 10.3.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2026-3b3b4740ca

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2026-10-21 08:32:03 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-9b03a92984 (perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.80-1.el10_2) has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 10.2.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2026-9b03a92984

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2026-10-21 08:46:12 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-95af75ef34 (perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.80-1.el9) has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 9.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2026-95af75ef34

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2026-10-21 08:50:19 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-b4b3dd8025 (perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.80-1.el8) has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 8.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2026-b4b3dd8025

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2026-10-24 00:29:35 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-672076fdc0 (perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.80-1.el10_4) has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 10.4 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2026-10-24 15:43:00 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-672076fdc0 (perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.80-1.el10_4) has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 10.4 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2026-10-24 15:55:32 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-9b03a92984 (perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.80-1.el10_2) has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 10.2 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2026-10-24 15:59:35 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-3b3b4740ca (perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.80-1.el10_3) has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 10.3 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2026-10-24 16:19:35 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-95af75ef34 (perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.80-1.el9) has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 9 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2026-10-24 16:28:45 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-b4b3dd8025 (perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.80-1.el8) has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 8 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.