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High · 8.1 CVE-2026-8796 EUVD-2026-33517GHSA-xhpj-269v-vq2q

Sereal::Decoder versions before 5.005 for Perl allow heap out-of-bounds read via crafted input

Published May 31, 2026 · Updated Jun 1, 2026 · Assigned by CPANSec

Description

Sereal::Decoder versions before 5.005 for Perl allow heap out-of-bounds read via crafted input.

In Perl/Decoder/srl_decoder.c, srl_read_object() and srl_read_hash() process a COPY tag, a back-reference whose target byte the decoder re-decodes as a fresh tag. When that target byte matches the SHORT_BINARY pattern (an inline string whose length is encoded in the low bits of the tag), the resulting read is not bounded to precede the COPY tag's own offset and can run past the end of the input buffer. An attacker controlled COPY offset can land inside a previously decoded value rather than on a tag boundary, planting a byte that the decoder reads as a SHORT_BINARY tag and consuming up to 31 following bytes from the heap as a class name (OBJECT path) or hash key (HASH path).

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
YVES Sereal::Decoder < 5.005 5.005

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 libsereal-decoder-perl 5.006+ds-1 —
Debian 13 libsereal-decoder-perl No fix yet —
Debian 12 libsereal-decoder-perl No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS libsereal-decoder-perl No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 libsereal-decoder-perl No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS libsereal-decoder-perl No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS libsereal-decoder-perl No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS libsereal-decoder-perl No fix yet —
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS libsereal-decoder-perl No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS libsereal-decoder-perl No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed perl-Sereal-Decoder 5.6.0-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:10924-1

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 perl-Sereal-Decoder 4.018-2.amzn2023.0.4 ALAS2023-2026-1830

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