CVE-2020-12723 (NVD)

2020-06-05

regcomp.c in Perl before 5.30.3 allows a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression because of recursive S_study_chunk calls.

Products Fedora, Oncommand_workflow_automation, Snap_creator_framework, Leap, Communications_billing_and_revenue_management, Communications_diameter_signaling_router, Communications_eagle_application_processor, Communications_eagle_lnp_application_processor, Communications_lsms, Communications_offline_mediation_controller, Communications_performance_intelligence_center, Configuration_manager, Enterprise_manager_base_platform, Sd\-Wan_edge, Tekelec_platform_distribution, Perl
Type Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow') (CWE-120)
First patch - None (likely due to unavailable code)
Patches https://github.com/Perl/perl5/compare/v5.30.2...v5.30.3
https://github.com/perl/perl5/commit/66bbb51b93253a3f87d11c2695cfb7bdb782184a
Links https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17743
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-03
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/16947
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html