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OS X update for Perl (CVE-2017-12837)

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OS X update for Perl (CVE-2017-12837)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/19/2017
Created
03/19/2019
Added
10/03/2018
Modified
11/27/2024

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(s)

  • apple-osx-security-update-2017-002-sierra

References

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