DEBIAN-CVE-2026-8796

Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-8796
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-8796.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-8796
Upstream
Published
2026-05-31T20:16:30Z
Modified
2026-09-14T17:03:38Z
Severity
  • 8.1 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Sereal::Decoder versions before 5.005 for Perl allow heap out-of-bounds read via crafted input. In Perl/Decoder/srl_decoder.c, srl_read_object() and srl_read_hash() process a COPY tag, a back-reference whose target byte the decoder re-decodes as a fresh tag. When that target byte matches the SHORT_BINARY pattern (an inline string whose length is encoded in the low bits of the tag), the resulting read is not bounded to precede the COPY tag's own offset and can run past the end of the input buffer. An attacker controlled COPY offset can land inside a previously decoded value rather than on a tag boundary, planting a byte that the decoder reads as a SHORT_BINARY tag and consuming up to 31 following bytes from the heap as a class name (OBJECT path) or hash key (HASH path).

References

Affected packages

Debian:12 / libsereal-decoder-perl

Package

Name
libsereal-decoder-perl
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libsereal-decoder-perl?arch=source&distro=bookworm

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

5.*
5.003+ds-1
5.004+ds-1
5.006+ds-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-8796.json"

Debian:13 / libsereal-decoder-perl

Package

Name
libsereal-decoder-perl
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libsereal-decoder-perl?arch=source&distro=trixie

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

5.*
5.004+ds-1
5.006+ds-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-8796.json"

Debian:14 / libsereal-decoder-perl

Package

Name
libsereal-decoder-perl
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libsereal-decoder-perl?arch=source&distro=forky

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.006+ds-1

Affected versions

5.*
5.004+ds-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-8796.json"