CPANSA-Data-HashMap-Shared-2026-59142: Data-HashMap-Shared vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2026-07-21T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.26
Current release date 2026-07-21T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score 9.1 Severity Critical
Original language Language en
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Vulnerability Description

Data::HashMap::Shared versions before 0.14 for Perl allow an out-of-bounds read via an unvalidated arena offset and length in shm_str_copy.

The attach-time validator shm_validate_header checks the header scalars and region layout against the file size, but does not validate the array contents it then trusts. shm_str_copy does memcpy(dst, arena + off, len) with off and len read raw from the mmap'd segment and unbounded, on the each, keys, values, pop, shift, take, swap, drain and cursor paths. The get path bounds off and len separately and is not affected.

A local peer that can write the backing file can leave the header valid while poisoning a record's offset and length, so iterating or draining the map copies a file-controlled offset and length out of the arena, reading adjacent memory or crashing the process.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2026-59142

Vulnerability Description

Data::HashMap::Shared versions before 0.14 for Perl allow an out-of-bounds read via an unvalidated arena offset and length in shm_str_copy.

The attach-time validator shm_validate_header checks the header scalars and region layout against the file size, but does not validate the array contents it then trusts. shm_str_copy does memcpy(dst, arena + off, len) with off and len read raw from the mmap'd segment and unbounded, on the each, keys, values, pop, shift, take, swap, drain and cursor paths. The get path bounds off and len separately and is not affected.

A local peer that can write the backing file can leave the header valid while poisoning a record's offset and length, so iterating or draining the map copies a file-controlled offset and length out of the arena, reading adjacent memory or crashing the process.

Weakness CWE-125 : Out-of-bounds Read

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
Data-HashMap-Shared less than 0.14
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H 9.1 Critical
Fixed

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References

Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Tue Jul 21 00:00:00 2026 First release

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