vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-6517-1 (CVE-2022-48522): Perl vulnerabilities

Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Published

Aug 22, 2023

Added

Nov 28, 2023

Modified

Mar 27, 2026

Description

In Perl 5.34.0, function S_find_uninit_var in sv.c has a stack-based crash that can lead to remote code execution or local privilege escalation.

ubuntu-upgrade-perl

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