SUSE-SU-2020:1682-2
Vulnerability from csaf_suse - Published: 2020-07-07 11:43 - Updated: 2026-09-20 13:32Summary
Security update for perl
Severity
Important
Notes
Title of the patch: Security update for perl
Description of the patch: This update for perl fixes the following issues:
- CVE-2020-10543: Fixed a heap buffer overflow in regular expression compiler which could have
allowed overwriting of allocated memory with attacker's data (bsc#1171863).
- CVE-2020-10878: Fixed multiple integer overflows which could have allowed the insertion of
instructions into the compiled form of Perl regular expression (bsc#1171864).
- CVE-2020-12723: Fixed an attacker's corruption of the intermediate language state of a
compiled regular expression (bsc#1171866).
- Fixed a bad warning in features.ph (bsc#1172348).
Patchnames: SUSE-2020-1682,SUSE-SLE-Module-Packagehub-Subpackages-15-SP1-2020-1682
Terms of use: CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).
6.4 (Medium)
Affected products
Recommended
1 product
| Product | Identifier | Version | Remediation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP1:perl-32bit-0:5.26.1-7.12.1.x86_64 | — |
Vendor Fix
|
Threats
Impact
moderate
6.4 (Medium)
Affected products
Recommended
1 product, the same list as for
CVE-2020-10543
Threats
Impact
moderate
6.4 (Medium)
Affected products
Recommended
1 product, the same list as for
CVE-2020-10543
Threats
Impact
moderate
References
20 references
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Vulnerability timeline
Sightings and recorded dates, grouped by day · UTC
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.