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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2023-47038: Perl: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Dec 18, 2023
Added
Nov 18, 2024
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

A vulnerability was found in perl 5.30.0 through 5.38.0. This issue occurs when a crafted regular expression is compiled by perl, which can allow an attacker controlled byte buffer overflow in a heap allocated buffer.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-lang-perl
Title
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