Bug 2481768 (CVE-2026-48959) - CVE-2026-48959 perl-IO-Compress: perl-IO-Compress: CPU exhaustion via per-byte read loop in fastForward
Summary: CVE-2026-48959 perl-IO-Compress: perl-IO-Compress: CPU exhaustion via per-byt...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-48959
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2489781
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Reported: 2026-05-27 04:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-06-17 08:09 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-05-27 04:01:26 UTC
IO::Uncompress::Unzip versions before 2.220 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via per-byte read loop in fastForward.

fastForward() compares length $offset (the digit count of the offset, 1 to 19) against the chunk size $c instead of $offset itself, so $c shrinks from 16 KiB to 1-19 bytes per iteration.

Extracting a named entry from an attacker supplied zip via IO::Uncompress::Unzip->new($zip, Name => $target) drives a per-byte read loop scaling with the entry's compressed size, up to the non-Zip64 4 GiB cap.


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