CVE-2026-48961
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.
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Affected products
5- Range: <2.220
- Range: <2.220
- osv-coords2 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/perl-IO-Compress&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/perl-IO-Compress&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
< 2.220.0-bp160.1.1+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: < 2.220.0-bp160.1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.220.0-2.1
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