Security Advisories (1)
CVE-2026-8829 (2026-06-04)

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.

Changes for version 3.75 - 2020-08-30

  • Cleanup the prereqs a bit
  • Mark HTML::Filter as deprecated as the docs point out
  • Move Parser.pm into the lib directory with the others. This will help with everything from auto version bumps after releases, to scanning for prerequisites and spelling errors.
  • Fix a few spelling errors in the POD for HTML::Parser
  • Clean up the spacing on many examples in HTML::Parser

Modules

Encode or decode strings with HTML entities
Filter HTML text through the parser
Parse <HEAD> section of a HTML document
Extract links from an HTML document
HTML parser class
Alternative HTML::Parser interface
Alternative HTML::Parser interface