Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting perl package, versions <5.24.1-3+deb9u7
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.27% (68th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-PERL-570790
- published 1 Jun 2020
- disclosed 5 Jun 2020
Introduced: 1 Jun 2020
CVE-2020-10878 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:9
perl
to version 5.24.1-3+deb9u7 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 Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:9
relevant fixed versions and status.
Perl before 5.30.3 has an integer overflow related to mishandling of a "PL_regkind[OP(n)] == NOTHING" situation. A crafted regular expression could lead to malformed bytecode with a possibility of instruction injection.