CVE-2020-12723

HIGH | Platform: macOS | Changelog

CVE Details

Description

regcomp.c in Perl before 5.30.3 allows a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression because of recursive S_study_chunk calls.

CVSS 3.1 Score

Metric	Value
Base Score	7.5 (HIGH)
Vector	`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`

Weakness

CWE-120

References

Apple Security Advisory
NVD Entry
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00044.html (Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/blob/blead/pod/perl5303delta.pod (Third Party Advisory)
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/compare/v5.30.2…v5.30.3 (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/16947 (Third Party Advisory)
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17743 (Third Party Advisory)
https://github.com/perl/perl5/commit/66bbb51b93253a3f87d11c2695cfb7bdb782184a (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IN3TTBO5KSGWE5IRIKDJ5JSQRH7ANNXE/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-03 (Third Party Advisory)