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PERL5402DELTA

Section: Perl Programmers Reference Guide (1)
Updated: 202-0-24
Index Return to Main Contents

NAME

perl5402delta - what is new for perl v5.40.2

DESCRIPTION

This document describes differences between the 5.40.1 release and the 5.40.2 release.

If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.40.0, first read perl5401delta, which describes differences between 5.40.0 and 5.40.1.

Security

[CVE-2024-56406] Heap buffer overflow vulnerability with tr//

A heap buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in Perl.

When there are non-ASCII bytes in the left-hand-side of the "tr" operator, S_do_trans_invmap() can overflow the destination pointer "d".

  $ perl -e '$_ = "x{FF}" x 1000000; tr/xFF/x{100}/;'
  Segmentation fault (core dumped)

It is believed that this vulnerability can enable Denial of Service or Arbitrary Code Execution attacks on platforms that lack sufficient defenses.

Discovered by: Nathan Mills.

Incompatible Changes

There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.40.1. If any exist, they are bugs, and we request that you submit a report. See "Reporting Bugs" below.

Modules and Pragmata

Updated Modules and Pragmata

*: Module::CoreList has been upgraded from version 5.20250118_40 to 5.20250413_40.

Acknowledgements

Perl 5.40.2 represents approximately 3 months of development since Perl 5.40.1 and contains approximately 1,600 lines of changes across 37 files from 7 authors.

Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were approximately 640 lines of changes to 5 .pm, .t, .c and .h files.

Perl continues to flourish into its fourth decade thanks to a vibrant community of users and developers. The following people are known to have contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.40.2:

Karl Williamson, Lukas Mai, Max Maischein, Paul Evans, Richard Leach, Steve Hay, Thibault Duponchelle.

The list above is almost certainly incomplete as it is automatically generated from version control history. In particular, it does not include the names of the (very much appreciated) contributors who reported issues to the Perl bug tracker.

Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN modules included in Perl's core. We're grateful to the entire CPAN community for helping Perl to flourish.

For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors, please see the AUTHORS file in the Perl source distribution.

Reporting Bugs

If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the perl bug database at <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>. There may also be information at <https://www.perl.org/>, the Perl Home Page.

If you believe you have an unreported bug, please open an issue at <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>. Be sure to trim your bug down to a tiny but sufficient test case.

If the bug you are reporting has security implications which make it inappropriate to send to a public issue tracker, then see "SECURITY VULNERABILITY CONTACT INFORMATION" in perlsec for details of how to report the issue.