Buffer Overflow Affecting perl package, versions <5.22.1-9ubuntu0.9
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.32% (70th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1604-PERL-570817
- published 1 Jun 2020
- disclosed 5 Jun 2020
Introduced: 1 Jun 2020
CVE-2020-12723 Open this link in a new tabHow 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.
regcomp.c in Perl before 5.30.3 allows a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression because of recursive S_study_chunk calls.