Alpine: perl: security update to 5.28.3-r0

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 406276

Description

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

- Perl before 5.30.3 on 32-bit platforms allows a heap-based buffer overflow because nested regular
expression quantifiers have an integer overflow. (CVE-2020-10543)

- 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. (CVE-2020-10878)

- regcomp.c in Perl before 5.30.3 allows a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression because of
recursive S_study_chunk calls. (CVE-2020-12723)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 406276

Version: Revision 1.27

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.9

Percentile: 52.23

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-10878

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/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: 6/2/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-10543, CVE-2020-10878, CVE-2020-12723

IAVA: 2020-A-0268

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