Bug 2481765 (CVE-2026-48961) - CVE-2026-48961 perl-IO-Compress: IO::Compress: Denial of Service in zipdetails CLI tool via malformed Info-ZIP Unix Extra Field
Summary: CVE-2026-48961 perl-IO-Compress: IO::Compress: Denial of Service in zipdetail...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-48961
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2489766
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Reported: 2026-05-27 04:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-06-17 06:10 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-05-27 04:01:16 UTC
IO::Compress versions from 2.207 before 2.220 for Perl ship a zipdetails CLI tool that crashes with undefined subroutine on Info-ZIP Unix Extra Field with 8-byte UID or GID.

When decode_ux() in bin/zipdetails handles an Info-ZIP Unix Extra Field (tag 0x7875) with UID Size or GID Size set to 8, causing zipdetails to decode an 8-byte UID or GID value, it dispatches through decodeLitteEndian(), which calls a misnamed helper unpackValueQ. The actual function defined in the same file is unpackValue_Q (with underscore); the call raises 'Undefined subroutine &main::unpackValueQ' and the script exits with status 255.

Library callers of IO::Compress and IO::Uncompress are not affected; the defect is in the bundled CLI tool.


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