CVE-2023-47100
CVSS 3.1 Score 9.8 of 10 (high)
Details
Published Dec 2, 2023
Updated: Dec 14, 2023
CWE ID 755
Summary
CVE-2023-47100 is a vulnerability affecting Perl versions before 5.38.2. This issue arises from a mishandling of property names in the S_parse_uniprop_string function within regcomp.c. Consequently, unallocated memory can be written to when processing certain regular expressions, specifically those containing the \p{...} construct. The earliest impacted release is Perl 5.30.0. A successful exploit could potentially lead to arbitrary code execution or memory corruption, posing a significant risk to users running affected Perl installations.
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Affected Products
- Perl
Affected Vendors
- Perl
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