Security Advisories (3)
CVE-2021-24032 (2021-03-04)

Beginning in v1.4.1 and prior to v1.4.9, due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2021-24031, the Zstandard command-line utility created output files with default permissions and restricted those permissions immediately afterwards. Output files could therefore momentarily be readable or writable to unintended parties.

CVE-2018-12913 (2018-06-27)

In Miniz 2.0.7, tinfl_decompress in miniz_tinfl.c has an infinite loop because sym2 and counter can both remain equal to zero.

CVE-2026-8796 (2026-05-31)

Sereal::Decoder versions before 5.005 for Perl allow heap out-of-bounds read via crafted input. In Perl/Decoder/srl_decoder.c, srl_read_object() and srl_read_hash() process a COPY tag, a back-reference whose target byte the decoder re-decodes as a fresh tag. When that target byte matches the SHORT_BINARY pattern (an inline string whose length is encoded in the low bits of the tag), the resulting read is not bounded to precede the COPY tag's own offset and can run past the end of the input buffer. An attacker controlled COPY offset can land inside a previously decoded value rather than on a tag boundary, planting a byte that the decoder reads as a SHORT_BINARY tag and consuming up to 31 following bytes from the heap as a class name (OBJECT path) or hash key (HASH path).

Changes for version 5.001

  • First official release of protocol 5. Better support for non standard NV types. Support for the new Perl 5.36 bools. Upgrade *Sereal::Decoder* FIRST.

Changes for version 5.000_002

  • Prerelease CPAN testing. Build fixes for quadmath and longdouble perls. Certain tests were failing with the old versions which were subtly broken on quadmath or longdouble machines. These tests are now skipped on these builds. You will not be able to fully test this platform until you install the Decoder, and then install the Encoder.

Changes for version 5.000_001

  • Prerelease CPAN testing for 5.000_000.

Changes for version 5.000_000

  • Support quadmath builds with FLOAT_128 tag type.
  • Support YES/NO tags for booleans. Requires perl 5.36.

Modules

Fast, compact, powerful binary deserialization
Getting the most out of the Perl-Sereal implementation

Provides

in lib/Sereal/Decoder/Constants.pm