Out-of-Bounds Affecting perl5 package, versions [,5.24.3)[5.26,5.26.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.42% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PERL5-2317627
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed19 Sept 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-12883  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade perl5 to version 5.24.3, 5.26.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. The S_grok_bslash_N function in regcomp.c allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted regular expression with an invalid '\N{U+...}' escape.

CVSS Base Scores

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