CVE-2020-10878

high

Description

Perl before 5.30.3 has an integer overflow related to mishandling of a "PL_regkind[OP(n)] == NOTHING" situation. A crafted regular expression could lead to malformed bytecode with a possibility of instruction injection.

References

Advisories
Tenable Blogs

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html

https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200611-0001/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-03

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IN3TTBO5KSGWE5IRIKDJ5JSQRH7ANNXE/

https://github.com/perl/perl5/commit/3295b48defa0f8570114877b063fe546dd348b3c

https://github.com/perl/perl5/commit/0a320d753fe7fca03df259a4dfd8e641e51edaa8

https://github.com/Perl/perl5/compare/v5.30.2...v5.30.3

https://github.com/Perl/perl5/blob/blead/pod/perl5303delta.pod

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00044.html

https://www.tenable.com/blog/oracle-april-2021-critical-patch-update-addresses-257-cves-including-zerologon-cve-2020-1472

https://www.tenable.com/blog/oracle-january-2021-critical-patch-update-five-critical-weblogic-flaws-cve-2021-2109

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-06-05

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H