CVE-2020-10878
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
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VIR risk
5.5
Description
Perl before 5.30.3 has an integer overflow related to mishandling of a "PL_regkind[OP(n)] == NOTHING" situation. A crafted regular expression could lead to malformed bytecode with a possibility of instruction injection.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-10878
Vendor advisory: rocky — https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2021:1678
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10878.html
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| rocky | 8 | fixed | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 5.30.3-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 5.30.3-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 5.30.3-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 5.30.3-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 5.30.3-1 |
References
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.