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SUSE: CVE-2017-12883: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2017-12883: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/19/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/27/2017
Modified
02/04/2022

Description

Buffer overflow in the S_grok_bslash_N 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 disclose sensitive information or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted regular expression with an invalid '\N{U+...}' escape.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-perl
  • suse-upgrade-perl-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-perl-base
  • suse-upgrade-perl-base-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-perl-core-db_file
  • suse-upgrade-perl-doc

References

  • SUSE-SU-2017:3092-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:0053-1
  • DSA-3982
  • CVE-2017-12883
  • USN-3478-1
  • USN-3478-2

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