Amazon Linux 2023 : perl-IO-Compress, perl-IO-Compress-tests (ALAS2023-2026-1825)

"It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2026-1825 advisory. IO::Uncompress::Unzip versions before 2.220 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via per-byte read loop in fastForward. fastForward compares length $offset the digit count of the offset, 1 to 19...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-48959

IO::Uncompress::Unzip versions before 2.220 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via per-byte read loop in fastForward. fastForward compares length $offset the digit count of the offset, 1 to 19 against the chunk size $c instead of $offset itself, so $c shrinks from 16 KiB to 1-19 bytes per iteration...

EUVD-2026-32043

IO::Uncompress::Unzip versions before 2.220 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via per-byte read loop in fastForward. fastForward compares length $offset the digit count of the offset, 1 to 19 against the chunk size $c instead of $offset itself, so $c shrinks from 16 KiB to 1-19 bytes per iteration...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-48959

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - IO::Uncompress::Unzip versions before 2.220 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via per-byte read loop in fastForward. fastForward compares length $offset the digit...