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perl-podlators security update

Type: advisorySource: OSV1 source record

podlators contains Pod::Man and Pod::Text modules which convert POD input to *roff source output, suitable for man pages, or plain text. It also includes several subclasses of Pod::Text for formatted output to terminals with various capabilities. It is the source package for the Pod::Man and Pod::Text modules included with Perl. Security Fix(es): 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.(CVE-2026-82560)

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OESA-2026-4202

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Security context

Source reference: osv:OESA-2026-4202

perl-podlators

Source reference: /affected/0/package/name

Affected versions
Not stated in this record
Fixed versions
5.01-2.oe2203sp4

Source reference: /affected/0/ranges

Prerequisites
Not stated in this record

Structured affected-version data

Original package identities and version rules from this source.

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  {
    "ranges": [
      {
        "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
        "events": [
          {
            "introduced": "0"
          },
          {
            "fixed": "5.01-2.oe2203sp4"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "package": {
      "name": "perl-podlators",
      "purl": "pkg:rpm/openEuler/perl-podlators&distro=openEuler-22.03-LTS-SP4",
      "ecosystem": "openEuler:22.03-LTS-SP4"
    },
    "database_specific": {
      "source": "https://repo.openeuler.org/security/data/osv/OESA-2026-4202.json"
    },
    "ecosystem_specific": {
      "src": [
        "perl-podlators-5.01-2.oe2203sp4.src.rpm"
      ],
      "noarch": [
        "perl-podlators-5.01-2.oe2203sp4.noarch.rpm",
        "perl-podlators-help-5.01-2.oe2203sp4.noarch.rpm"
      ]
    }
  }
]

Publisher severity

high

Source reference: /database_specific/severity

Event
#52117 · Revision 1
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