Out-of-bounds Write Affecting perl package, versions <5.22.1-9ubuntu0.9
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.31% (70th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1604-PERL-570820
- published 1 Jun 2020
- disclosed 5 Jun 2020
How to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:16.04
perl
to version 5.22.1-9ubuntu0.9 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 Ubuntu
.
See How to fix?
for Ubuntu:16.04
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.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2020-10543
- https://github.com/Perl/perl5/blob/blead/pod/perl5303delta.pod
- https://github.com/perl/perl5/commit/897d1f7fd515b828e4b198d8b8bef76c6faf03ed
- https://github.com/Perl/perl5/compare/v5.30.2...v5.30.3
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200611-0001/
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-10543
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IN3TTBO5KSGWE5IRIKDJ5JSQRH7ANNXE/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-03
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
- https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00044.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IN3TTBO5KSGWE5IRIKDJ5JSQRH7ANNXE/