Upstream information

CVE-2026-48961 at MITRE

Description

IO::Compress versions from 2.207 before 2.220 for Perl ship a zipdetails CLI tool that crashes with undefined subroutine on Info-ZIP Unix Extra Field with 8-byte UID or GID.

When decode_ux() in bin/zipdetails handles an Info-ZIP Unix Extra Field (tag 0x7875) with UID Size or GID Size set to 8, causing zipdetails to decode an 8-byte UID or GID value, it dispatches through decodeLitteEndian(), which calls a misnamed helper unpackValueQ. The actual function defined in the same file is unpackValue_Q (with underscore); the call raises 'Undefined subroutine &main::unpackValueQ' and the script exits with status 255.

Library callers of IO::Compress and IO::Uncompress are not affected; the defect is in the bundled CLI tool.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail CNA (CISA-ADP)
Base Score 7.3
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact Low
Integrity Impact Low
Availability Impact Low
CVSSv3 Version 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1266381 [NEW]

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List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • perl-IO-Compress >= 2.220.0-2.1
Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2026-10969


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed May 27 07:00:03 2026
CVE page last modified: Tue Jun 9 14:26:23 2026