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Debian: CVE-2017-12837: perl -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2017-12837: perl -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/19/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/05/2017
Modified
02/24/2020

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)

  • debian-upgrade-perl

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