CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2026-48961

Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

Published: May 27, 2026 | Modified: May 29, 2026
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
5 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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IO::Compress versions from 2.207 before 2.220 for Perl ship a zipdetails CLI tool that crashes with undefined subroutine on Info-ZIP Unix Extra Field with 8-byte UID or GID.

When decode_ux() in bin/zipdetails handles an Info-ZIP Unix Extra Field (tag 0x7875) with UID Size or GID Size set to 8, causing zipdetails to decode an 8-byte UID or GID value, it dispatches through decodeLitteEndian(), which calls a misnamed helper unpackValueQ. The actual function defined in the same file is unpackValue_Q (with underscore); the call raises Undefined subroutine &main::unpackValueQ and the script exits with status 255.

Library callers of IO::Compress and IO::Uncompress are not affected; the defect is in the bundled CLI tool.

Weakness

The product does not handle or incorrectly handles an exceptional condition.

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