CVE-2017-12837
mediumpriority · track · 32EPSS 0.062 · 93 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
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.
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Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.5
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affected products (3)
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references (27)
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- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1492091cnnvd
- https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/96c83ed78aeea1a0496dd2b2d935869a822dc8a5cnnvd
- https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/log/refs/tags/v5.24.3-RC1cnnvd
- https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/log/refs/tags/v5.26.1-RC1cnnvd
- https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=131582cnnvd
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180426-0001/cnnvd
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3982cnnvd
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.htmlcnnvd
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