CPANSA-Sereal-Encoder-2024-14031: Sereal-Encoder vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2026-03-31T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.26
Current release date 2026-03-31T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score 8.1 Severity
Original language Language en
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Vulnerability Description

Sereal::Encoder versions from 4.000 through 4.009_002 for Perl embeds a vulnerable version of the Zstandard library. Sereal::Encoder embeds a version of the Zstandard (zstd) library that is vulnerable to CVE-2019-11922. This is a race condition in the one-pass compression functions of Zstandard prior to version 1.3.8 could allow an attacker to write bytes out of bounds if an output buffer smaller than the recommended size was used.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-14031

Vulnerability Description

Sereal::Encoder versions from 4.000 through 4.009_002 for Perl embeds a vulnerable version of the Zstandard library.

Sereal::Encoder embeds a version of the Zstandard (zstd) library that is vulnerable to CVE-2019-11922. This is a race condition in the one-pass compression functions of Zstandard prior to version 1.3.8 could allow an attacker to write bytes out of bounds if an output buffer smaller than the recommended size was used.

Weakness CWE-787 : Out-of-bounds Write

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
Sereal-Encoder greater than or equal 4.000 and less than 4.010
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 8.1 High
Fixed

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References

Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 2026 First release

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