CVE-2024-56406Perl is vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow when transliterating non-ASCII bytes

Official description

A heap buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in Perl. Release branches 5.34, 5.36, 5.38 and 5.40 are affected, including development versions from 5.33.1 through 5.41.10. When there are non-ASCII bytes in the left-hand-side of the `tr` operator, `S_do_trans_invmap` can overflow the destination pointer `d`.    $ perl -e '$_ = "\x{FF}" x 1000000; tr/\xFF/\x{100}/;'    Segmentation fault (core dumped) It is believed that this vulnerability can enable Denial of Service and possibly Code Execution attacks on platforms that lack sufficient defenses.

Affected packages & fixed versions

Affected products (as reported)

References

• https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/87f42aa0e0096e9a346c9672aa3a0bd3bef8c1dd.patch patch
• https://metacpan.org/release/SHAY/perl-5.38.4/changes release-notes
• https://metacpan.org/release/SHAY/perl-5.40.2/changes release-notes
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/04/13/3
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/04/13/4
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/04/13/5