CVE-2006-10002

CRITICAL9.8

XML::Parser versions through 2.45 for Perl could overflow the pre-allocated buffer size cause a heap corruption (double free or corruption) and crashes

Published Mar 19, 2026

Modified 3 weeks ago

Details

XML::Parser versions through 2.45 for Perl could overflow the pre-allocated buffer size cause a heap corruption (double free or corruption) and crashes.

A :utf8 PerlIO layer, parse_stream() in Expat.xs could overflow the XML input buffer because Perl's read() returns decoded characters while SvPV() gives back multi-byte UTF-8 bytes that can exceed the pre-allocated buffer size. This can cause heap corruption (double free or corruption) and crashes.

References

WEB

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/03/19/1

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http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/03/22/3

FIX

https://github.com/cpan-authors/XML-Parser/commit/56b0509dfc6b559cd7555ea81ee62e3622069255.patch

WEB

https://github.com/cpan-authors/XML-Parser/issues/64

WEB

https://metacpan.org/release/TODDR/XML-Parser-2.46/changes

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