wid-sec-w-2026-0901
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Published 2026-03-29
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Perl: Vulnerability allows nicht spezifizierten Angriff
CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL
Risk Summary
Perl versions from 5.9.4 before 5.40.4-RC1, from 5.41.0 before 5.42.2-RC1, from 5.43.0 before 5.43.9 contain a vulnerable version of Compress::Raw::Zlib. Compress::Raw::Zlib is included in the Perl package as a dual-life core module, and is vulnerable to CVE-2026-3381 due to a vendored version of zlib which has several vulnerabilities, including CVE-2026-27171. The bundled Compress::Raw::Zlib was updated to version 2.221 in Perl blead commit c75ae9cc164205e1b6d6dbd57bd2c65c8593fe94.
CVEs (1)
Affected Vendors
Open Source
Affected Products (6)
Open Source
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Perl
<5.40.4-RC1
Open Source
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Perl
5.40.4-RC1
Open Source
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Perl
<5.42.2-RC1
Open Source
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Perl
5.42.2-RC1
Open Source
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Perl
<5.43.9
Open Source
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Perl
5.43.9
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