CPANSA-Storable-2017-20230: Storable vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2026-04-21T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.26
Current release date 2026-04-21T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score 10 Severity
Original language Language en
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Vulnerability Description

Storable versions before 3.05 for Perl has a stack overflow. The retrieve_hook function stored the length of the class name into a signed integer but in read operations treated the length as unsigned. This allowed an attacker to craft data that could trigger the overflow.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-20230

Vulnerability Description

Storable versions before 3.05 for Perl has a stack overflow.

The retrieve_hook function stored the length of the class name into a signed integer but in read operations treated the length as unsigned. This allowed an attacker to craft data that could trigger the overflow.

Weakness CWE-121 : Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
Storable less than 3.05
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H 10.0 Critical
Fixed

giterlizzi

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gdt@cpan.org

References

Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Tue Apr 21 00:00:00 2026 First release

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