CVE-2017-12814 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Perl

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer4 documents4 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
6.1%
top 9.24%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
PerlDebian Perl
Timeline
PublishedSep 28
Latest updateMay 13

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the CPerlHost::Add method in win32/perlhost.h in Perl before 5.24.3-RC1 and 5.26.x before 5.26.1-RC1 on Windows allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long environment variable.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDperl/perl5.24.2+1
▶debiandebian/perl

Patches

Patch: rt.perl.org ↗Patch: rt.perl.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-6g5g-x3hj-6v2x: Stack-based buffer overflow in the CPerlHost::Add method in win32/perlhost↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2017-12814: Stack-based buffer overflow in the CPerlHost::Add method in win32/perlhost↗2017-09-27
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2017-12814: perl - Stack-based buffer overflow in the CPerlHost::Add method in win32/perlhost.h in ...↗2017
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