Buffer Overflow in Perl's S_grok_bslash_N Function

CVE-2017-12883 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

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.

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