Out-of-Bounds Affecting perl package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.88% (91st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-PERL-22216126
  • published5 Nov 2026
  • disclosed10 Oct 2012

Introduced: 10 Oct 2012

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

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:10 perl.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perl package and not the perl package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1