Buffer Overflow

Affecting perl package, versions <5.28.1-6+deb10u1

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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.

Remediation

Upgrade perl to version or higher.

References

CVSS Score

7.5
high severity
  • Attack Vector
    Network
  • Attack Complexity
    Low
  • Privileges Required
    None
  • User Interaction
    None
  • Scope
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality
    None
  • Integrity
    None
  • Availability
    High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVE
CVE-2020-12723
CWE
CWE-120
Snyk ID
SNYK-DEBIAN10-PERL-570797
Disclosed
05 Jun, 2020
Published
01 Jun, 2020