A vulnerability was found in Perl up to 5.43.10 on 32-bit. It has been rated as critical . This issue affects the function Perl_study_chunk of the file regcomp_study.c . Performing a manipulation results in integer overflow to buffer overflow. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2026-8376 . It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. Applying a patch is the recommended action to fix this issue.