CVE-2017-12837 (GCVE-0-2017-12837)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-09-19 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 18:51
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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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2017-09-10 00:00
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