Description (CNA)
HTML::Entities versions before 3.84 for Perl read freed heap memory in _decode_entities. The XS routine backing HTML::Entities::_decode_entities cached a pointer (repl) into the entity-value SV returned by hv_fetch on the entity2char hash. When the input SV was identical to a value SV in that hash, and that value contained its own key as an entity reference, a later call to grow_gap() reallocated the SV's PV buffer and freed the backing allocation that repl still pointed into. The subsequent copy loop read repl_len bytes from the freed allocation. The read may disclose adjacent heap contents into the destination SV.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| OALDERS / HTML::Entities | affected 0 before 3.84 |
CWE
CWE-416
References
- https://github.com/libwww-perl/HTML-Parser/pull/56
- https://github.com/libwww-perl/HTML-Parser/commit/6922552b0778c90a9587a3894e248be4d3a25e1c.patch
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