Out-of-Bounds Affecting perl package, versions <5.26.0-8
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2.41% (91st
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-PERL-517686
- published 19 Sep 2017
- disclosed 19 Sep 2017
Introduced: 19 Sep 2017
CVE-2017-12883 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11
perl
to version 5.26.0-8 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perl
package and not the perl
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:11
relevant fixed versions and status.
Buffer overflow in the S_grok_bslash_N function in regcomp.c in Perl 5 before 5.24.3-RC1 and 5.26.x before 5.26.1-RC1 allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted regular expression with an invalid '\N{U+...}' escape.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-12883
- http://mirror.cucumberlinux.com/cucumber/cucumber-1.0/source/lang-base/perl/patches/CVE-2017-12883.patch
- https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/2be4edede4ae226e2eebd4eff28cedd2041f300f#patch1
- https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/log/refs/tags/v5.24.3-RC1
- https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/log/refs/tags/v5.26.1-RC1
- https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=131598
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-12883
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3982
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180426-0001/
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1492093
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100852
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-12883