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Alpine: perl: security update to 5.34.2-r0

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 408044

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - A vulnerability was found in perl 5.30.0 through 5.38.0. This issue occurs when a crafted regular
 expression is compiled by perl, which can allow an attacker controlled byte buffer overflow in a heap
 allocated buffer. (CVE-2023-47038)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-47038

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 408044

Version: Revision 1.35

Type: Local

Published: 11/26/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.86

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-47038

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/30/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-47038