CVE-2026-8829
7.5 HIGHHTML::Entities versions before 3.84 for Perl read freed heap memory in _decode_entities
Published: 2026-06-04 · Last updated: 2026-06-08
Severity and scoring
- CVSS
- 7.5 HIGH
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CWE
- CWE-416
Affected products
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| oalders | html\ |
Description
HTML::Entities versions before 3.84 for Perl read freed heap memory in _decode_entities. The XS routine backing HTML::Entities::_decode_entities cached a pointer (repl) into the entity-value SV returned by hv_fetch on the entity2char hash. When the input SV was identical to a value SV in that hash, and that value contained its own key as an entity reference, a later call to grow_gap() reallocated the SV's PV buffer and freed the backing allocation that repl still pointed into. The subsequent copy loop read repl_len bytes from the freed allocation. The read may disclose adjacent heap contents into the destination SV.
Source: NVD
References
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