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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.23% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PERL5-2317628
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed19 Sept 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-12837  (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. Due to S_regatom function in regcomp.c, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via a regular expression with a '\N{}' escape and the case-insensitive modifier.

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CVSS Base Scores

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