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It was discovered that Perl's 'x' string repeat operator is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow. An attacker could use this to execute arbitrary code (CVE-2012-5195).
The _compile function in Maketext.pm in the Locale::Maketext implementation in Perl before 5.17.7 does not properly handle backslashes and fully qualified method names during compilation of bracket notation, which allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary commands via crafted input to an application that accepts translation strings from users (CVE-2012-6329).
In order to prevent an algorithmic complexity attack against its hashing mechanism, perl will sometimes recalculate keys and redistribute the contents of a hash. This mechanism has made perl robust against attacks that have been demonstrated against other systems. Research by Yves Orton has recently uncovered a flaw in the rehashing code which can result in pathological behavior. This flaw could be exploited to carry out a denial of service attack against code that uses arbitrary user input as hash keys. Because using user-provided strings as hash keys is a very common operation, we urge users of perl to update their perl executable as soon as possible.
Updates to address this issue have bene pushed to main-5.8, maint-5.10, maint-5.12, maint-5.14, and maint-5.16 branches today.
Vendors* were informed of this problem two weeks ago and are expected to be shipping updates today (or otherwise very soon) (CVE-2013-1667).
Max CVSS | 0 |
Min CVSS | 0 |
Total Count | 2 |
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