CPANSA-perl-2005-3962: perl vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2005-12-01T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.25
Current release date 2005-12-01T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score Severity
Original language Language en
Also referred to

Vulnerability Description

Integer overflow in the format string functionality (Perl_sv_vcatpvfn) in Perl 5.9.2 and 5.8.6 Perl allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary memory and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers with large values, which causes an integer wrap and leads to a buffer overflow, as demonstrated using format string vulnerabilities in Perl applications.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2005-3962

Vulnerability Description

Integer overflow in the format string functionality (Perl_sv_vcatpvfn) in Perl 5.9.2 and 5.8.6 Perl allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary memory and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers with large values, which causes an integer wrap and leads to a buffer overflow, as demonstrated using format string vulnerabilities in Perl applications.

Weakness CWE-189 : Numeric Errors

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
perl less than 5.10.0
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
2.0 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P 4.6 Medium

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References

Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Thu Dec 1 00:00:00 2005 First release

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