Buffer Overflow Affecting perl5 package, versions [,5.30.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.16% (38th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PERL5-2317607
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed5 Jun 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Jun 2020

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

How to fix?

Upgrade perl5 to version 5.30.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow 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