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CVE-2026-7040

Published: Apr 27, 2026

Modified: May 1, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
RRWO	Text::Minify::XS	affected `0.3.0 - < 0.7.8`

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

https://github.com/robrwo/Text-Minify-XS/security/advisories/GHSA-jqhf-vv4h-77h2

vendor-advisory

https://metacpan.org/release/RRWO/Text-Minify-XS-v0.7.8/changes

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