CPANSA-Data-RingBuffer-Shared-2026-59144: Data-RingBuffer-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 9.8 Severity Critical
Original language Language en
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Vulnerability Description

Data::RingBuffer::Shared versions before 0.04 for Perl allow a stack buffer overflow via an unvalidated elem_size in ring_read_seq.

The attach-time validator ring_validate_header checks the capacity-overflow and total_size consistency of the header but never caps elem_size against the destination size. ring_read_seq does memcpy(out, ring_slot(h, seq), elem_size) with elem_size read raw from the mmap'd segment, copying into a fixed 8-byte destination scalar. An elem_size larger than 8 bytes writes past the destination.

A local peer that can write the backing file can leave the header valid while setting a large elem_size, so the next read copies a file-controlled length into the fixed 8-byte stack buffer, corrupting adjacent stack frames.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2026-59144

Vulnerability Description

Data::RingBuffer::Shared versions before 0.04 for Perl allow a stack buffer overflow via an unvalidated elem_size in ring_read_seq.

The attach-time validator ring_validate_header checks the capacity-overflow and total_size consistency of the header but never caps elem_size against the destination size. ring_read_seq does memcpy(out, ring_slot(h, seq), elem_size) with elem_size read raw from the mmap'd segment, copying into a fixed 8-byte destination scalar. An elem_size larger than 8 bytes writes past the destination.

A local peer that can write the backing file can leave the header valid while setting a large elem_size, so the next read copies a file-controlled length into the fixed 8-byte stack buffer, corrupting adjacent stack frames.

Weakness CWE-121 : Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
Data-RingBuffer-Shared less than 0.04
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:H/A:H 9.8 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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