Buffer Overflow Affecting perl package, versions <5.30.3-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (63rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-PERL-570788
  • published1 Jun 2020
  • disclosed5 Jun 2020

Introduced: 1 Jun 2020

CVE-2020-12723  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable perl to version 5.30.3-1 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:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

regcomp.c in Perl before 5.30.3 allows a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression because of recursive S_study_chunk calls.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1