CVE-2017-12837 (GCVE-0-2017-12837)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-09-19 18:00
Modified
2024-08-05 18:51
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Heap-based buffer overflow in the S_regatom 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 cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via a regular expression with a '\N{}' escape and the case-insensitive modifier.
References
cve@mitre.org http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3982
cve@mitre.org http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100860 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.org https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1492091 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.org https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/96c83ed78aeea1a0496dd2b2d935869a822dc8a5 Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/log/refs/tags/v5.24.3-RC1 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/log/refs/tags/v5.26.1-RC1 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=131582
cve@mitre.org https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180426-0001/
cve@mitre.org https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3982
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100860 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1492091 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/96c83ed78aeea1a0496dd2b2d935869a822dc8a5 Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/log/refs/tags/v5.24.3-RC1 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/log/refs/tags/v5.26.1-RC1 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=131582
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180426-0001/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
Impacted products
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