CVE-2026-8376

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-8376
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-8376.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-8376
Downstream
AZL (1)
BELL (1)
CGA (10)
CLSA (1)
DEBIAN (1)
ECHO (1)
MGASA (1)
MINI (4)
OESA (1)
openSUSE (1)
ROOT (5)
SUSE (6)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
openSUSE (1)
SUSE (6)
Published
2026-05-25T23:53:27Z
Modified
2026-09-10T08:25:28Z
Severity
  • 7.3 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L CVSS Calculator
Summary
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
Details

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.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner": "CPANSec",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-680"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/8xxx/CVE-2026-8376.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/perl/perl5

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/perl/perl5
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
5e7f119eb2bb1181be908701f22bf7068e722f1c
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "5.43.10"
        }
    ],
    "source": [
        "CPE_RANGE",
        "REFERENCES"
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other
GitLive-blead
perl-5a2
perl-5a9
if-0.*
if-0.0603
if-0.0604
if-0.0605
perl-1.*
perl-1.0
perl-2.*
perl-2.0
perl-3.*
perl-3.000
perl-3.044
perl-4.*
perl-4.0.00
perl-4.0.36
perl-5.*
perl-5.000
perl-5.000o
perl-5.001
perl-5.001n
perl-5.002
perl-5.002_01
perl-5.003
perl-5.005
perl-5.6.0
perl-5.7.0
perl-5.7.1
perl-5.7.2
perl-5.7.3
perl-5.8.0
perl-5.9.0
perl-5.9.1
perl-5.9.2
perl-5.9.3
perl-5.9.4
perl-5.9.5
v5.*
v5.10.0
v5.11.0
v5.11.1
v5.11.3
v5.11.4
v5.11.5
v5.12.0
v5.12.0-RC0
v5.12.0-RC1
v5.12.0-RC2
v5.12.0-RC3
v5.12.0-RC4
v5.12.0-RC5
v5.13.0
v5.13.1
v5.13.10
v5.13.11
v5.13.2
v5.13.3
v5.13.4
v5.13.5
v5.13.6
v5.13.7
v5.13.8
v5.13.9
v5.14.0
v5.14.0-RC1
v5.14.0-RC2
v5.14.0-RC3
v5.15.0
v5.15.1
v5.15.2
v5.15.3
v5.15.4
v5.15.5
v5.15.9
v5.16.0
v5.16.0-RC1
v5.16.0-RC2
v5.17.0
v5.17.2
v5.17.4
v5.17.6
v5.17.7
v5.17.7.0
v5.17.8
v5.17.9
v5.18.0
v5.18.0-RC1
v5.18.0-RC2
v5.18.0-RC3
v5.18.0-RC4
v5.19.0
v5.19.1
v5.19.11
v5.19.2
v5.19.3
v5.19.5
v5.19.7
v5.20.0
v5.20.0-RC1
v5.21.0
v5.21.1
v5.21.10
v5.21.11
v5.21.4
v5.21.5
v5.21.6
v5.21.8
v5.21.9
v5.22.0
v5.22.0-RC1
v5.22.0-RC2
v5.23.0
v5.23.1
v5.23.2
v5.23.3
v5.23.4
v5.23.6
v5.23.7
v5.24.0
v5.24.0-RC1
v5.24.0-RC2
v5.24.0-RC3
v5.24.0-RC4
v5.24.0-RC5
v5.25.0
v5.25.11
v5.25.2
v5.25.3
v5.25.4
v5.25.5
v5.25.7
v5.25.9
v5.26.0
v5.26.0-RC2
v5.27.0
v5.27.10
v5.27.11
v5.27.3
v5.27.5
v5.27.6
v5.27.7
v5.27.8
v5.28.0
v5.28.0-RC1
v5.28.0-RC2
v5.28.0-RC3
v5.28.0-RC4
v5.29.0
v5.29.1
v5.29.10
v5.29.5
v5.29.6
v5.29.7
v5.29.8
v5.29.9
v5.30.0
v5.30.0-RC1
v5.30.0-RC2
v5.31.0
v5.31.1
v5.31.11
v5.31.2
v5.31.3
v5.31.4
v5.31.5
v5.31.7
v5.32.0
v5.32.0-RC1
v5.33.0
v5.33.1
v5.33.2
v5.33.3
v5.33.4
v5.33.7
v5.33.8
v5.33.9
v5.34.0
v5.34.0-RC1
v5.34.0-RC2
v5.35.0
v5.35.10
v5.35.11
v5.35.3
v5.35.5
v5.35.6
v5.35.8
v5.35.9
v5.36.0
v5.36.0-RC3
v5.37.0
v5.37.1
v5.37.10
v5.37.11
v5.37.2
v5.37.3
v5.37.4
v5.37.5
v5.37.6
v5.37.7
v5.37.9
v5.38.0
v5.38.0-RC1
v5.38.0-RC2
v5.39.0
v5.39.1
v5.39.3
v5.39.4
v5.39.5
v5.39.7
v5.39.8
v5.40.0
v5.40.0-RC1
v5.40.0-RC2
v5.41.0
v5.41.1
v5.41.10
v5.41.11
v5.41.12
v5.41.13
v5.41.2
v5.41.3
v5.41.4
v5.41.5
v5.41.7
v5.41.8
v5.41.9
v5.42.0
v5.42.0-RC1
v5.42.0-RC2
v5.42.0-RC3
v5.43.0
v5.43.1
v5.43.10
v5.43.2
v5.43.6
v5.43.8
v5.43.9

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-8376.json"
vanir_signatures 
[
    {
        "deprecated": false,
        "digest": {
            "line_hashes": [
                "9044274273817096257826340016907433463",
                "10824497922658380334050930273948771395",
                "22606885329989943457972533494694044144",
                "245540066980495066395013891761984069220"
            ],
            "threshold": 0.9
        },
        "id": "CVE-2026-8376-595191c9",
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "source": "https://github.com/perl/perl5/commit/5e7f119eb2bb1181be908701f22bf7068e722f1c",
        "target": {
            "file": "regcomp_study.c"
        }
    },
    {
        "deprecated": false,
        "digest": {
            "function_hash": "108310289957967335225355739344715828892",
            "length": 42758
        },
        "id": "CVE-2026-8376-642f39d4",
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "source": "https://github.com/perl/perl5/commit/5e7f119eb2bb1181be908701f22bf7068e722f1c",
        "target": {
            "file": "regcomp_study.c",
            "function": "Perl_study_chunk"
        }
    }
]
vanir_signatures_modified 
"2026-09-10T08:25:28Z"