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Perl Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer Vulnerability - CVE-2017-12837 - Vulnerability Database
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Perl Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer Vulnerability - CVE-2017-12837

High
Reference: CVE-2017-12837
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12837
Title: Perl Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer Vulnerability
Overview:

Heap-based buffer overflow in the S_regatom 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 cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via a regular expression with a 39N39 escape and the case-insensitive modifier.