CVE-2026-85644 (GCVE-0-2026-85644)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-28 16:09
Modified
2026-09-30 19:50
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
Summary
XS::Parse::Infix versions from 0.40 through 0.49 for Perl treat a number as an array reference.
The wrapper function XS::Parse::Infix generates for a list-associative infix operator checks whether arguments are array references, but it tests using SvRV() rather than SvROK(). SvRV() reads a union slot that only holds a referent once SvROK(sv) is true, so the guard never validates that it is a reference. For an IV or NV that slot holds the number itself, SvRV() returns the caller's value and SvTYPE() dereferences it at offset 12. This will generally result in a segmentation fault.
An application that hands the wrapper a list built from decoded input (for example, from JSON) lets whoever supplies a number in that list choose the address that the interpreter dereferences.
An ordinary string's byte 12 is rarely SVt_PVAV so the guard croaks by luck, but an attacker-crafted string carrying 0x0b there passes, and the buffer is then used as an AV head, with AvARRAY taken from bytes 16-23 and its entries pushed onto the Perl stack as live SVs.
A simple proof-of-concept uses the zip operator:
use Syntax::Operator::Zip 'zip';
my @args = ([1], 2);
zip(@args);
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