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High RLSA-2026:30859 1 CVE

Important: perl-IO-Compress security update

Published Jul 1, 2026 · Updated Jul 1, 2026

Ecosystem: Rocky Linux

Summary

This distribution provides a Perl interface to allow reading and writing of compressed data created with the zlib and bzip2 libraries. IO-Compress supports reading and writing of bzip2, RFC 1950, RFC 1951, RFC 1952 (i.e. gzip) and zip files/buffers. The following modules used to be distributed separately, but are now included with the IO-Compress distribution:
* Compress-Zlib
* IO-Compress-Zlib
* IO-Compress-Bzip2
* IO-Compress-Base

Security Fix(es):

* perl-IO-Compress: perl-IO-Compress: Arbitrary code execution via attacker-controlled output glob (CVE-2026-48962)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 9 perl-IO-Compress 0:2.102-4.el9_8.1

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.3
    CVE-2026-48962 Public exploit

    IO::Compress versions before 2.220 for Perl can execute arbitrary code in File::GlobMapper via an attacker-controlled output glob

    IO::Compress versions before 2.220 for Perl can execute arbitrary code in File::GlobMapper via an attacker-controlled output glob. _parseOutputGlob() wraps the caller-supplied output glob string in double quotes and stores it in the parser state; _getFiles() …

    PMQS IO::Compress perl perl Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2481767