CPANSA-perl-2017-12814: perl vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2017-09-28T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.25
Current release date 2017-09-28T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score 9.8 Severity Critical
Original language Language en
Also referred to

Vulnerability Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the CPerlHost::Add method in win32/perlhost.h in Perl before 5.24.3-RC1 and 5.26.x before 5.26.1-RC1 on Windows allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long environment variable.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-12814

Vulnerability Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the CPerlHost::Add method in win32/perlhost.h in Perl before 5.24.3-RC1 and 5.26.x before 5.26.1-RC1 on Windows allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long environment variable.

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

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
perl greater than or equal 5.24.0 and less than 5.24.3
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
3.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 9.8 Critical
2.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P 7.5 High
perl equal =5.26.0
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
3.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 9.8 Critical
2.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P 7.5 High

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References

Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Thu Sep 28 00:00:00 2017 First release

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