Executable Regular Expression Error Affecting perl-parent package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.19% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-PERLPARENT-1404537
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed2 Jun 2020

Introduced: 2 Jun 2020

CVE-2020-12723  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-624  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:6 perl-parent.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perl-parent package and not the perl-parent package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 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 Base Scores

version 3.1