Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting perl-libs package, versions <4:5.26.3-419.el8


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Rocky Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.94% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ROCKY8-PERLLIBS-3295076
  • published3 Feb 2023
  • disclosed5 Jun 2020

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 Rocky-Linux:8 perl-libs to version 4:5.26.3-419.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RLSA-2021:1678.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perl-libs package and not the perl-libs package as distributed by Rocky-Linux. See How to fix? for Rocky-Linux:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

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