Out-of-bounds Write Affecting perl5 package, versions [,5.28.3)[5.30.0, 5.30.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.15% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PERL5-2327381
  • published29 Dec 2021
  • disclosed5 Jun 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Jun 2020

CVE-2020-10543  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade perl5 to version 5.28.3, 5.30.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. Perl before 5.30.3 on 32-bit platforms allows a heap-based buffer overflow because nested regular expression quantifiers have an integer overflow.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1