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.
{
"cna_assigner": "CPANSec",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-835"
],
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/82xxx/CVE-2026-82560.json"
}{
"extracted_events": [
{
"range": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"last_affected": "5.45.2"
}
],
"source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
"strategy": "StandardRange"
}
]
}
{
"extracted_events": [
{
"range": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "6.1.1"
}
],
"source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
"strategy": "StandardRange"
},
{
"range": [
{
"fixed": "70510174f69eb54aa6d617bde4e1402cd9b7c61f"
}
],
"source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
}
]
}