Perl Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer Vulnerability - CVE-2012-5195 - Vulnerability Database

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Perl Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer Vulnerability - CVE-2012-5195

High

Reference: CVE-2012-5195

NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5195

Title: Perl Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer Vulnerability

Overview:

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 39x39 string repeat operator.