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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2020-12723): Perl vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2020-12723): Perl vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/05/2020
Created
10/28/2020
Added
10/27/2020
Modified
03/22/2023

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-perl

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