Out-of-Bounds Affecting perl5 package, versions [,5.12.5)[5.14.0,5.14.3)[15.15.0,15.15.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.75% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PERL5-2317625
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed18 Dec 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Dec 2012

CVE-2012-5195  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade perl5 to version 5.12.5, 5.14.3, 15.15.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. Heap-based buffer overflow in the Perl_repeatcpy function in util.c in Perl 5.12.x before 5.12.5, 5.14.x before 5.14.3, and 5.15.x before 15.15.5 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via the 'x' string repeat operator.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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