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1 vulnerability found for HTML::Entities by OALDERS

CVE-2026-8829 (GCVE-0-2026-8829)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-06-04 02:03
Modified
2026-06-28 11:34
CWE
Summary
HTML::Entities versions before 3.84 for Perl read freed heap memory in _decode_entities. The XS routine backing HTML::Entities::_decode_entities cached a pointer (repl) into the entity-value SV returned by hv_fetch on the entity2char hash. When the input SV was identical to a value SV in that hash, and that value contained its own key as an entity reference, a later call to grow_gap() reallocated the SV's PV buffer and freed the backing allocation that repl still pointed into. The subsequent copy loop read repl_len bytes from the freed allocation. The read may disclose adjacent heap contents into the destination SV.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
OALDERS HTML::Entities Version: 0   < 3.84
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