CVE-2017-12837
N/A
Published: September 19, 2017 at 06:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:04 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorPerl
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 6%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3982
- 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
References (9)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3982VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100860x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingPatchThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1492091x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/96c83ed78aeea1a0496dd2b2d935869a822dc8a5x_refsource_CONFIRMRelease NotesVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/log/refs/tags/v5.24.3-RC1x_refsource_CONFIRMRelease NotesVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/log/refs/tags/v5.26.1-RC1x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180426-0001/Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119
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