Upstream information
Description
App::Ack versions before 3.10.0 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via an unbounded context value in a project .ackrc.ack searches up the directory hierarchy from the current directory for a project .ackrc and loads its options. The -B and -C context options accepted any positive integer, and ack sized the before-context buffer to that value, so a project .ackrc setting --before-context=100000000 made ack allocate a buffer of 100 million elements.
A project .ackrc committed to an untrusted repository can abort ack with an out-of-memory condition.
SUSE information
Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products
No SUSE Bugzilla entries cross referenced. No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.List of released packages
| Product(s) | Fixed package version(s) | References |
|---|---|---|
| openSUSE Tumbleweed |
| Patchnames: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2026-10965 |
SUSE Timeline for this CVE
CVE page created: Tue Jun 9 11:36:21 2026CVE page last modified: Wed Jul 8 20:32:18 2026