ALPINE-CVE-2024-56406
- Source
- https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2024-56406
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2024-56406.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2024-56406
- Upstream
- Published
- 2025-04-13T14:15:14Z
- Modified
- 2026-08-27T22:18:02Z
- Severity
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- 8.4 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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A heap buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in Perl.
Release branches 5.34, 5.36, 5.38 and 5.40 are affected, including development versions from 5.33.1 through 5.41.10.
When there are non-ASCII bytes in the left-hand-side of the
troperator,S_do_trans_invmapcan overflow the destination pointerd.$ perl -e '$_ = "\x{FF}" x 1000000; tr/\xFF/\x{100}/;' Segmentation fault (core dumped)
It is believed that this vulnerability can enable Denial of Service and possibly Code Execution attacks on platforms that lack sufficient defenses.
- References