CVE-2017-12883
mediumpriority · track · 38EPSS 0.059 · 93 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
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.
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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–critical · 6.4–9.1
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affected products (3)
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references (30)
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- http://mirror.cucumberlinux.com/cucumber/cucumber-1.0/source/lang-base/perl/patches/CVE-2017-12883.patchcnnvd
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1492093cnnvd
- https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/2be4edede4ae226e2eebd4eff28cedd2041f300f#patch1cnnvd
- 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=131598cnnvd
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180426-0001/cnnvd
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3982cnnvd
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