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CVE-2026-82560 on Cyberus Linux 26.05

Aliases: CVE-2026-82560

Packages: perl

Status: Plausible

Advisory Information

Pod::Text versions before 6.1.1 for Perl allow CPU and memory exhaustion formatting a POD document whose =over nesting drives the margin to the output width.

Each =over adds its indent to the margin, which wrap() subtracts from the output width to get the space available for text. When that space reaches zero, the line-splitting substitution matches the empty string, and the loop consumes no input while appending the margin padding on every pass.

Formatting an attacker-supplied POD document never returns, and the output grows until memory is exhausted.

Updates

2026-09-25 19:24 CEST

Metadata changes:

  • Status for package perl: “Plausible”

(Amended on: 2026-09-25 19:25 CEST)

2026-09-25 19:23 CEST

Metadata changes:

  • Status for package perl: “New”