CVE-2017-20230

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-20230
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-20230.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-20230
Downstream
Related
Published
2026-04-21T16:16:18Z
Modified
2026-08-07T11:31:19Z
Severity
  • 10.0 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Storable versions before 3.05 for Perl has a stack overflow.

The retrieve_hook function stored the length of the class name into a signed integer but in read operations treated the length as unsigned. This allowed an attacker to craft data that could trigger the overflow.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:a:nwclark:storable:*:*:*:*:*:perl:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "fixed": "3.05"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_RANGE",
            "vendor_product": "nwclark:storable"
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "fixed": "3.05"
                }
            ],
            "source": "DESCRIPTION"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/perl/perl5

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/perl/perl5
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
a258c17c6937f79529c8319a829310e09cdbd216
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "source": "REFERENCES"
}

Affected versions

Other
GitLive-blead
perl-5a2
perl-5a9
if-0.*
if-0.0603
if-0.0604
if-0.0605
perl-1.*
perl-1.0
perl-2.*
perl-2.0
perl-3.*
perl-3.000
perl-3.044
perl-4.*
perl-4.0.00
perl-4.0.36
perl-5.*
perl-5.000
perl-5.000o
perl-5.001
perl-5.001n
perl-5.002
perl-5.002_01
perl-5.003
perl-5.005
perl-5.6.0
perl-5.7.0
perl-5.7.1
perl-5.7.2
perl-5.7.3
perl-5.8.0
perl-5.9.0
perl-5.9.1
perl-5.9.2
perl-5.9.3
perl-5.9.4
perl-5.9.5
v5.*
v5.10.0
v5.11.0
v5.11.1
v5.11.3
v5.11.4
v5.11.5
v5.12.0
v5.12.0-RC0
v5.12.0-RC1
v5.12.0-RC2
v5.12.0-RC3
v5.12.0-RC4
v5.12.0-RC5
v5.13.0
v5.13.1
v5.13.10
v5.13.11
v5.13.2
v5.13.3
v5.13.4
v5.13.5
v5.13.6
v5.13.7
v5.13.8
v5.13.9
v5.14.0
v5.14.0-RC1
v5.14.0-RC2
v5.14.0-RC3
v5.15.0
v5.15.1
v5.15.2
v5.15.3
v5.15.4
v5.15.5
v5.15.9
v5.16.0
v5.16.0-RC1
v5.16.0-RC2
v5.17.0
v5.17.2
v5.17.4
v5.17.6
v5.17.7
v5.17.7.0
v5.17.8
v5.17.9
v5.18.0
v5.18.0-RC1
v5.18.0-RC2
v5.18.0-RC3
v5.18.0-RC4
v5.19.0
v5.19.1
v5.19.11
v5.19.2
v5.19.3
v5.19.5
v5.19.7
v5.20.0
v5.20.0-RC1
v5.21.0
v5.21.1
v5.21.10
v5.21.11
v5.21.4
v5.21.5
v5.21.6
v5.21.8
v5.21.9
v5.22.0
v5.22.0-RC1
v5.22.0-RC2
v5.23.0
v5.23.1
v5.23.2
v5.23.3
v5.23.4
v5.23.6
v5.23.7
v5.24.0
v5.24.0-RC1
v5.24.0-RC2
v5.24.0-RC3
v5.24.0-RC4
v5.24.0-RC5
v5.25.0
v5.25.11
v5.25.2
v5.25.3
v5.25.4
v5.25.5
v5.25.7
v5.25.9
v5.26.0
v5.26.0-RC2
v5.27.0
v5.27.3
v5.27.5
v5.27.6
v5.27.7
v5.27.8

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-20230.json"