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CVE-2025-15649 CPAN Security Group
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CVE ID: CVE-2025-15649
Distribution: IO-Compress
Versions: before 2.215
MetaCPAN: https://metacpan.org/dist/IO-Compress
VCS Repo: https://github.com/pmqs/IO-Compress
IO::Uncompress::Unzip versions before 2.215 for Perl propagate uncaught
exception when parsing zip header with malformed DOS date
Description
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IO::Uncompress::Unzip versions before 2.215 for Perl propagate uncaught
exception when parsing zip header with malformed DOS date.
_dosToUnixTime() decodes the local-file-header last-modification date
field and calls Time::Local::timelocal() without an eval guard. A
header whose date field decodes to an out-of-range month, day, or hour
causes timelocal() to die.
The exception propagates out of IO::Uncompress::Unzip->new($file) where
callers expect undef plus $UnzipError.
Problem types
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- CWE-248 Uncaught Exception
Solutions
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Upgrade to IO-Compress 2.215 or later.
References
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https://github.com/pmqs/IO-Compress/commit/fd28c1d2374eee9811f6d0c5bddc0957abdf1da8.patch
https://github.com/pmqs/IO-Compress/issues/65
https://metacpan.org/release/PMQS/IO-Compress-2.215/changes
Timeline
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- 2025-10-25: Issue reported.
- 2026-01-30: Version 2.215 released.
