CVE-2012-5195

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2012-10-10
Bugzilla:
862413: CVE-2012-5195 perl: heap buffer overrun flaw may lead to arbitrary code execution

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Heap-based buffer overflow in the Perl_repeatcpy function in util.c in Perl 5.12.x before 5.12.5, 5.14.x before 5.14.3, and 5.15.x before 15.15.5 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via the 'x' string repeat operator.

Find out more about CVE-2012-5195 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 5.1
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (perl) RHSA-2013:0685 2013-03-26
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (perl) RHSA-2013:0685 2013-03-26

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 perl Will not fix

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Perl project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Tim Brown as the original reporter.

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