CVE-2020-10543

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

Perl before 5.30.3 on 32-bit platforms allows a heap-based buffer overflow because nested regular expression quantifiers have an integer overflow.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-10543

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: rocky — https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2021:1678

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10543.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
rockylinux rocky8fixed
debian debianbookwormfixed5.30.3-1
debian debianbullseyefixed5.30.3-1
debian debianforkyfixed5.30.3-1
debian debiansidfixed5.30.3-1
debian debiantrixiefixed5.30.3-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.