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ALPINE-CVE-2017-12837

ALPINE-CVE-2017-12837 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.5 HIGH

Heap-based buffer overflow in the S_regatom function in regcomp.c in Perl 5 before 5.24.3-RC1 and 5.26.x before 5.26.1-RC1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via a regular expression with a '\N{}' escape and the case-insensitive modifier.

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.0
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Alpine:v3.17perl5.26.0-r0, 0, 0
Alpine:v3.6perl5.22.2-r0, 5.16.0-r0, 5.14.2-r1
Alpine:v3.24perl0, 0
Alpine:v3.4perl5.18.2-r0, 5.20.0-r0, 5.20.1-r0
Alpine:v3.23perl5.10.1-r0, 0, 0
Alpine:v3.8perl5.26.0-r0, 5.10.1-r0, 5.10.0-r0
Alpine:v3.21perl5.16.2-r0, 5.10.1-r0, 5.10.0-r1
Alpine:v3.13perl5.26.0-r0, 0, 5.10.0-r0
Alpine:v3.20perl0, 0, 5.26.0-r0
Alpine:v3.22perl5.14.2-r1, 5.14.2-r0, 5.14.1-r0
Alpine:v3.3perl5.22.0-r0, 0, 5.10.0-r0
Alpine:v3.5perl5.16.0-r0, 5.16.1-r0, 5.16.2-r0
Alpine:v3.12perl5.18.1-r0, 0, 5.10.0-r0
Alpine:v3.9perl0, 0, 0
Alpine:v3.14perl5.24.0-r2, 5.10.0-r1, 5.10.1-r0
Alpine:v3.18perl5.10.0-r0, 0, 0
Alpine:v3.7perl5.10.0-r0, 0, 0
Alpine:v3.11perl0, 5.10.0-r0, 5.10.0-r1
Alpine:v3.19perl0, 5.10.0-r0, 5.10.0-r1
Alpine:v3.10perl0, 0, 0

…and 2 more

Timeline

  • Sep 19, 2017 CVE Published
  • Apr 30, 2026 Distribution Patch
  • Jun 15, 2026 CVE Updated
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