MGASA-2026-0158 Updated perl-IO-Compress package fixes security vulnerabilities

The updated package fixes security vulnerabilities: IO::Uncompress::Unzip versions before 2.215 for Perl propagate uncaught exception when parsing zip header with malformed DOS date. CVE-2025-15649 IO::Uncompress::Unzip versions before 2.220 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via per-byte read loop in...

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...

CVE-2025-15649

The IO::Uncompress::Unzip component for Perl (versions before 2.215 ) is vulnerable to a CWE-248: Uncaught Exception when parsing a zip header containing a malformed DOS date. The _dosToUnixTime() function decodes the local-file-header last-modification date and calls Time::Local::timelocal() wit...

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...