The minify functions mishandled some malformed UTF-8 characters, leading to heap corruption.
Note that the minify_utf8 function is an alias for minify.
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Solution
Upgrade to v0.7.8 or later.
Workaround
Validate that all strings passed to the minify and minify_utf8 functions.
Thu, 07 May 2026 02:30:00 +0000
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Rrwo text\
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| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:rrwo:text\:\:minify\:\:xs:*:*:*:*:*:perl:*:* | |
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Rrwo text\
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Fri, 01 May 2026 16:15:00 +0000
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| Description | Text::Minify::XS versions from v0.3.0 before v0.7.8 for Perl have a heap overflow when processing some malformed UTF-8 characters. The minify functions mishandled some malformed UTF-8 characters, leading to heap corruption. Note that the minify_utf8 function is an alias for minify. | Text::Minify::XS versions from 0.3.0 before 0.7.8 for Perl have a heap overflow when processing some malformed UTF-8 characters. The minify functions mishandled some malformed UTF-8 characters, leading to heap corruption. Note that the minify_utf8 function is an alias for minify. |
| Title | Text::Minify::XS versions from v0.3.0 before v0.7.8 for Perl have heap overflow when processing some malformed UTF-8 characters | Text::Minify::XS versions from 0.3.0 before 0.7.8 for Perl have heap overflow when processing some malformed UTF-8 characters |
Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:15:00 +0000
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| Description | Text::Minify::XS versions from v0.3.0 before v0.7.8 for Perl have a heap overflow when processing some malformed UTF-8 characters. The minify functions mishandled some malformed UTF-8 characters, leading to heap corruption. Note that the minify_utf8 function is an alias for minnify. | Text::Minify::XS versions from v0.3.0 before v0.7.8 for Perl have a heap overflow when processing some malformed UTF-8 characters. The minify functions mishandled some malformed UTF-8 characters, leading to heap corruption. Note that the minify_utf8 function is an alias for minify. |
Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:45:00 +0000
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Rrwo
Rrwo text::minify::xs |
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Rrwo
Rrwo text::minify::xs |
Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:30:00 +0000
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Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:15:00 +0000
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Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000
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| Description | Text::Minify::XS versions from v0.3.0 before v0.7.8 for Perl have a heap overflow when processing some malformed UTF-8 characters. The minify functions mishandled some malformed UTF-8 characters, leading to heap corruption. Note that the minify_utf8 function is an alias for minnify. | |
| Title | Text::Minify::XS versions from v0.3.0 before v0.7.8 for Perl have heap overflow when processing some malformed UTF-8 characters | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-122 CWE-176 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: CPANSec
Published:
Updated: 2026-05-01T16:03:02.431Z
Reserved: 2026-04-25T15:53:43.870Z
Link: CVE-2026-7040
Updated: 2026-04-27T16:33:01.648Z
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2026-04-27T13:16:02.710
Modified: 2026-05-07T02:20:57.817
Link: CVE-2026-7040
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Updated: 2026-05-02T00:45:30Z