CVE-2017-12837 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3982 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100860 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1492091 https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/96c83ed78aeea1a0496dd2b2d935869a822dc8a5 https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/log/refs/tags/v5.24.3-RC1 https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/log/refs/tags/v5.26.1-RC1 https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=131582 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180426-0001/ https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5