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Debian: CVE-2020-12723: perl -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 5, 2020
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

regcomp.c in Perl before 5.30.3 allows a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression because of recursive S_study_chunk calls.

Solution

debian-upgrade-perl
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