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IBM AIX: perl_advisory5 (CVE-2020-12723): Vulnerabilities in Perl affect AIX

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IBM AIX: perl_advisory5 (CVE-2020-12723): Vulnerabilities in Perl affect AIX

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/05/2020
Created
12/11/2020
Added
12/10/2020
Modified
12/21/2020

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(s)

  • ibm-aix-perl_advisory5

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