Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package perl (opens in a new tab)
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- published5 Mar 2026
- disclosed5 Mar 2026
Introduced: 5 Mar 2026
CVE-2026-3381 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:14.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perl package and not the perl package as distributed by Debian.
Compress::Raw::Zlib versions through 2.219 for Perl use potentially insecure versions of zlib.
Compress::Raw::Zlib includes a copy of the zlib library. Compress::Raw::Zlib version 2.220 includes zlib 1.3.2, which addresses findings fron the 7ASecurity audit of zlib. The includes fixs for CVE-2026-27171.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-3381
- https://7asecurity.com/blog/2026/02/zlib-7asecurity-audit/
- https://github.com/madler/zlib
- https://github.com/madler/zlib/releases/tag/v1.3.2
- https://github.com/pmqs/Compress-Raw-Zlib/issues/41
- https://metacpan.org/release/PMQS/Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.221/source/Changes
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-27171
- https://www.zlib.net/