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CVE-2012-5195

N/A

Description

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 'x' string repeat operator.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published12/18/2012

Last Modified4/29/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

perl:perl

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-119

References

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10673(cve@mitre.org)

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705(cve@mitre.org)

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10735(cve@mitre.org)

http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/2709980d5a193ce6f3a16f0d19879a6560dcde44(cve@mitre.org)

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0685.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://secunia.com/advisories/51457(cve@mitre.org)

http://secunia.com/advisories/55314(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2586(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:113(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg193886.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/26/2(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/27/1(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56287(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1643-1(cve@mitre.org)

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0352(cve@mitre.org)

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10673(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10735(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/2709980d5a193ce6f3a16f0d19879a6560dcde44(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0685.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://secunia.com/advisories/51457(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://secunia.com/advisories/55314(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2586(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:113(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg193886.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/26/2(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/27/1(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56287(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1643-1(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0352(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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