FKIE_CVE-2017-12883

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-09-19 18:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:04
Severity
9.1 (Critical) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Summary
Buffer overflow in the S_grok_bslash_N 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 disclose sensitive information or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted regular expression with an invalid '\N{U+...}' escape.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://mirror.cucumberlinux.com/cucumber/cucumber-1.0/source/lang-base/perl/patches/CVE-2017-12883.patchPatch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3982
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100852Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1492093Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/2be4edede4ae226e2eebd4eff28cedd2041f300f#patch1Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/log/refs/tags/v5.24.3-RC1Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/log/refs/tags/v5.26.1-RC1Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=131598
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180426-0001/
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://mirror.cucumberlinux.com/cucumber/cucumber-1.0/source/lang-base/perl/patches/CVE-2017-12883.patchPatch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3982
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100852Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1492093Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/2be4edede4ae226e2eebd4eff28cedd2041f300f#patch1Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/log/refs/tags/v5.24.3-RC1Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/log/refs/tags/v5.26.1-RC1Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=131598
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180426-0001/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
perl perl *
perl perl 5.26.0
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