Out-of-Bounds Affecting perl5 package, versions [,5.24.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
5.37% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PERL5-2317614
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed28 Sept 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-12814  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade perl5 to version 5.24.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. Stack-based buffer overflow in the CPerlHost::Add method in win32/perlhost.h in Perl before 5.24.3-RC1 and 5.26.x before 5.26.1-RC1 on Windows allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long environment variable.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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