CVE-2017-12883
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
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
- http://mirror.cucumberlinux.com/cucumber/cucumber-1.0/source/lang-base/perl/patches/CVE-2017-12883.patch
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3982
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1492093
- https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/2be4edede4ae226e2eebd4eff28cedd2041f300f#patch1
- https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/log/refs/tags/v5.24.3-RC1
References (10)
x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://mirror.cucumberlinux.com/cucumber/cucumber-1.0/source/lang-base/perl/patches/CVE-2017-12883.patchVendor 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/100852x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingPatchThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1492093x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/2be4edede4ae226e2eebd4eff28cedd2041f300f#patch1x_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-RC1Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119
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