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Alpine: miniperl, multiple perl packages: security update to 5.26.1-r0

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 424391

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

 - 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. (CVE-2017-12837)

 - Buffer overflow in the S_grok_bslash_N 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 disclose sensitive information or cause a denial of service
 (application crash) via a crafted regular expression with an invalid '\N{U+...}' escape. (CVE-2017-12883)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-12837

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-12883

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 424391

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Published: 4/4/2025

Updated: 5/30/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-12883

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/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: 9/12/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-12837, CVE-2017-12883

BID: 100852, 100860