CPANSA-perl-2012-5195: perl vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2012-12-18T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.25
Current release date 2012-12-18T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score Severity
Original language Language en
Also referred to

Vulnerability Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the Perl_repeatcpy function in util.c in Perl 5.12.x before 5.12.5, 5.14.x before 5.14.3, and 5.15.x before 15.15.5 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via the 'x' string repeat operator.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2012-5195

Vulnerability Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the Perl_repeatcpy function in util.c in Perl 5.12.x before 5.12.5, 5.14.x before 5.14.3, and 5.15.x before 15.15.5 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via the 'x' string repeat operator.

Weakness CWE-119 : Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
perl less than 5.16.0
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
2.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P 7.5 High
Fixed

giterlizzi

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gdt@cpan.org

References

Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Tue Dec 18 00:00:00 2012 First release

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