DEBIAN-CVE-2020-10878

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-10878
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https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-10878.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-10878
Upstream
Published
2020-06-05T14:15:10.527Z
Modified
2025-11-19T01:12:35.457057Z
Severity
  • 8.6 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / perl

Package

Name
perl
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/perl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.30.3-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / perl

Package

Name
perl
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/perl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.30.3-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / perl

Package

Name
perl
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/perl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.30.3-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / perl

Package

Name
perl
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/perl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.30.3-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}