Unrated severityOSV Advisory· Published Jul 9, 2026
Debian ack: App::Ack versions before 3.10.0 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via an unbounde…
CVE-2026-49146
Description
App::Ack versions before 3.10.0 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via an unbounded context value in a project .ackrc. ack searches up the directory hierarchy from the current directory for a project .ackrc and loads its options. The -B and -C context options accepted any positive integer, and ack sized the before-context buffer to that value, so a project .ackrc setting --before-context=100000000 made ack allocate a buffer of 100 million elements. A project .ackrc committed to an untrusted repository can abort ack with an out-of-memory condition.
Affected products
2- Range: v3.9.0, v3.8.2, v3.8.1, …
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
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