Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Perl's Regular Expression Compilation

Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Perl's Regular Expression Compilation

CVE-2023-47038 · HIGH Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

A vulnerability was found in perl. 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.

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