The XS backend allocates the scalar it returns before it validates the input, sizing the buffer at twice the input length. The scalar is released only on the success path, so each of the three croaks that reject a label leaves the scalar and its buffer allocated. Nothing bounds the label length in the to-Unicode direction, since the 63-byte DNS limit is checked only when converting to ASCII.
Only the XS backend is affected.
A sender who supplies invalid labels grows the process by twice the label length per rejected call, with no successful call needed.
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Vendor Solution
Upgrade to Net-IDN-Encode 2.590-TRIAL or later.
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| Description | Net::IDN::Punycode versions from 2.302 before 2.590 for Perl leak the output buffer on every rejected label in decode_punycode. The XS backend allocates the scalar it returns before it validates the input, sizing the buffer at twice the input length. The scalar is released only on the success path, so each of the three croaks that reject a label leaves the scalar and its buffer allocated. Nothing bounds the label length in the to-Unicode direction, since the 63-byte DNS limit is checked only when converting to ASCII. Only the XS backend is affected. A sender who supplies invalid labels grows the process by twice the label length per rejected call, with no successful call needed. | |
| Title | Net::IDN::Punycode versions from 2.302 before 2.590 for Perl leak the output buffer on every rejected label in decode_punycode | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-401 | |
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: CPANSec
Published:
Updated: 2026-09-22T12:33:22.356Z
Reserved: 2026-09-08T19:22:20.005Z
Link: CVE-2026-87078
Vulnrichment
Updated: 2026-09-22T12:33:04.415Z
NVD
Status : Received
Published: 2026-09-22T08:16:40.530
Modified: 2026-09-22T13:17:11.307
Link: CVE-2026-87078
Redhat
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-09-22T08:30:17Z
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CWE-401
Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime