vulnerability
OS X update for Perl (CVE-2017-12837)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | 2017-09-19 | 2018-10-03 | 2025-04-25 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
2017-09-19
Added
2018-10-03
Modified
2025-04-25
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the S_regatom function in regcomp.c in Perl 5 before 5.24.3-RC1 and 5.26.x before 5.26.1-RC1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via a regular expression with a '\N{}' escape and the case-insensitive modifier.
Solution
apple-osx-security-update-2017-002-sierra
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