ALPINE-CVE-2026-49146

Source
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2026-49146
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2026-49146.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2026-49146
Upstream
Published
2026-07-08T15:16:27.673Z
Modified
2026-07-09T09:30:06.173755423Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

App::Ack versions before 3.10.0 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via an unbounded context value in a project .ackrc.

ack searches up the directory hierarchy from the current directory for a project .ackrc and loads its options. The -B and -C context options accepted any positive integer, and ack sized the before-context buffer to that value, so a project .ackrc setting --before-context=100000000 made ack allocate a buffer of 100 million elements.

A project .ackrc committed to an untrusted repository can abort ack with an out-of-memory condition.

References

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.24 / ack

Package

Name
ack
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/ack?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.10.0-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2026-49146.json"