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DEBIAN-CVE-2026-14895

Type: advisorySource: OSV1 source record

String::Util versions before 1.36 for Perl are susceptible to a regular expression denial of service. The trim and rtrim functions stripped trailing whitespace with s/\s*$//u. Because \s* matches greedily and the $ anchor fails whenever a non-whitespace character follows the whitespace, the regex engine retries the match at each offset of a long whitespace run, producing quadratic backtracking. The fix replaces \s*$ with \s+$. Any caller that passes untrusted input to trim or rtrim can trigger CPU exhaustion with a string containing a long run of whitespace.

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DEBIAN-CVE-2026-14895

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Security context

Source reference: osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2026-14895

libstring-util-perl

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Affected versions
1.34-2

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1.35-1

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1.36-1

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Fixed versions
Not stated in this record
Prerequisites
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libstring-util-perl

Source reference: /affected/1/package/name

Affected versions
1.35-1

Source reference: /affected/1/versions

1.36-1

Source reference: /affected/1/versions

Fixed versions
Not stated in this record
Prerequisites
Not stated in this record

libstring-util-perl

Source reference: /affected/2/package/name

Affected versions
1.35-1

Source reference: /affected/2/versions

Fixed versions
1.36-1

Source reference: /affected/2/ranges

Prerequisites
Not stated in this record

Structured affected-version data

Original package identities and version rules from this source.

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      "name": "libstring-util-perl",
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      "ecosystem": "Debian:12"
    },
    "versions": [
      "1.34-2",
      "1.35-1",
      "1.36-1"
    ],
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      "urgency": "not yet assigned"
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  },
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]

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