CVE-2017-12837

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-12837
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-12837.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-12837
Downstream
ALPINE (1)
BELL (1)
CLEANSTART (1)
DEBIAN (1)
MGASA (2)
openSUSE (1)
RHSA (1)
SUSE (1)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
Published
2017-09-19T18:29:00Z
Modified
2026-10-24T10:33:20Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/perl/perl5

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/perl/perl5
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last Affected
eb3b805818a89c08b5564d383beddf70f69af1a3
Introduced
95388f2eb27e74cdbfb715c0097f16aeba4e6e4e
Last Affected
95388f2eb27e74cdbfb715c0097f16aeba4e6e4e
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "5.24.2"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_RANGE"
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.26.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "5.26.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "5.26.0"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

5.*
5.26.0
Other
GitLive-blead
perl-5a2
perl-5a9
if-0.*
if-0.0603
if-0.0604
if-0.0605
perl-1.*
perl-1.0
perl-2.*
perl-2.0
perl-3.*
perl-3.000
perl-3.044
perl-4.*
perl-4.0.00
perl-4.0.36
perl-5.*
perl-5.000
perl-5.000o
perl-5.001
perl-5.001n
perl-5.002
perl-5.002_01
perl-5.003
perl-5.005
perl-5.6.0
perl-5.7.0
perl-5.7.1
perl-5.7.2
perl-5.7.3
perl-5.8.0
perl-5.9.0
perl-5.9.1
perl-5.9.2
perl-5.9.3
perl-5.9.4
perl-5.9.5
v5.*
v5.10.0
v5.11.0
v5.11.1
v5.11.3
v5.11.4
v5.11.5
v5.12.0
v5.12.0-RC0
v5.12.0-RC1
v5.12.0-RC2
v5.12.0-RC3
v5.12.0-RC4
v5.12.0-RC5
v5.13.0
v5.13.1
v5.13.10
v5.13.11
v5.13.2
v5.13.3
v5.13.4
v5.13.5
v5.13.6
v5.13.7
v5.13.8
v5.13.9
v5.14.0
v5.14.0-RC1
v5.14.0-RC2
v5.14.0-RC3
v5.15.0
v5.15.1
v5.15.2
v5.15.3
v5.15.4
v5.15.5
v5.15.9
v5.16.0
v5.16.0-RC1
v5.16.0-RC2
v5.17.0
v5.17.2
v5.17.4
v5.17.6
v5.17.7
v5.17.7.0
v5.17.8
v5.17.9
v5.18.0
v5.18.0-RC1
v5.18.0-RC2
v5.18.0-RC3
v5.18.0-RC4
v5.19.0
v5.19.1
v5.19.11
v5.19.2
v5.19.3
v5.19.5
v5.19.7
v5.20.0
v5.20.0-RC1
v5.21.0
v5.21.1
v5.21.10
v5.21.11
v5.21.4
v5.21.5
v5.21.6
v5.21.8
v5.21.9
v5.22.0
v5.22.0-RC1
v5.22.0-RC2
v5.23.0
v5.23.1
v5.23.2
v5.23.3
v5.23.4
v5.23.6
v5.23.7
v5.24.0
v5.24.0-RC1
v5.24.0-RC2
v5.24.0-RC3
v5.24.0-RC4
v5.24.0-RC5
v5.24.1
v5.24.1-RC1
v5.24.1-RC2
v5.24.1-RC3
v5.24.1-RC4
v5.24.1-RC5
v5.24.2
v5.24.2-RC1
v5.26.0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-12837.json"