GHSA-7vxx-5gqr-7r44unknown

IO::Uncompress::Unzip versions before 2.220 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via per-byte read loop...

Published
May 27, 2026
Last Modified
May 27, 2026

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📋 Description

IO::Uncompress::Unzip versions before 2.220 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via per-byte read loop in fastForward.

fastForward() compares length $offset (the digit count of the offset, 1 to 19) against the chunk size $c instead of $offset itself, so $c shrinks from 16 KiB to 1-19 bytes per iteration.

Extracting a named entry from an attacker supplied zip via IO::Uncompress::Unzip->new($zip, Name => $target) drives a per-byte read loop scaling with the entry's compressed size, up to the non-Zip64 4 GiB cap.

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