CVE-2026-7040 (GCVE-0-2026-7040)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-04-27 12:29
Modified
2026-05-01 16:03
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-176 - Improper Handling of Unicode Encoding
  • CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Summary
Text::Minify::XS versions from 0.3.0 before 0.7.8 for Perl have a heap overflow when processing some malformed UTF-8 characters. The minify functions mishandled some malformed UTF-8 characters, leading to heap corruption. Note that the minify_utf8 function is an alias for minify.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
RRWO Text::Minify::XS Version: 0.3.0   < 0.7.8
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