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F5 Networks: CVE-2020-10878: K40508224: Perl vulnerability CVE-2020-10878

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F5 Networks: CVE-2020-10878: K40508224: Perl vulnerability CVE-2020-10878

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/05/2020
Created
02/19/2022
Added
02/18/2022
Modified
08/23/2024

Description

Perl before 5.30.3 has an integer overflow related to mishandling of a "PL_regkind[OP(n)] == NOTHING" situation. A crafted regular expression could lead to malformed bytecode with a possibility of instruction injection.

Solution(s)

  • f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest

References

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