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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
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Alpine:v3.17 | perl | 5.16.3-r0, 5.14.2-r0, 5.12.1-r0 |
| Alpine:v3.6 | perl | 5.14.2-r1, 5.22.0-r0, 5.24.1-r2 |
| Alpine:v3.24 | perl | 0 |
| Alpine:v3.4 | perl | 5.10.1-r2, 5.12.1-r0, 5.12.2-r0 |
| Alpine:v3.23 | perl | 5.20.1-r0, 5.24.1-r0, 5.20.2-r1 |
| Alpine:v3.8 | perl | 5.18.0-r0, 5.16.0-r0, 5.14.2-r1 |
| Alpine:v3.21 | perl | 5.20.2-r0, 5.10.0-r1, 0 |
| Alpine:v3.13 | perl | 5.18.1-r0, 5.10.0-r0, 5.10.1-r0 |
| Alpine:v3.20 | perl | 5.24.0-r0, 5.24.1-r1, 5.12.1-r0 |
| Alpine:v3.22 | perl | 5.12.2-r0, 5.12.1-r0, 5.10.1-r2 |
| Alpine:v3.3 | perl | 5.20.2-r1, 5.18.1-r0, 5.10.0-r0 |
| Alpine:v3.5 | perl | 5.22.2-r0, 5.12.1-r0, 5.12.2-r1 |
| Alpine:v3.12 | perl | 5.26.0-r0, 5.10.0-r0, 5.10.0-r1 |
| Alpine:v3.9 | perl | 5.10.1-r1, 0, 5.26.0-r0 |
| Alpine:v3.14 | perl | 5.12.3-r0, 0, 5.10.0-r0 |
| Alpine:v3.18 | perl | 5.10.1-r0, 5.26.0-r0, 5.24.1-r2 |
| Alpine:v3.7 | perl | 5.10.0-r0, 5.24.1-r2, 5.18.1-r0 |
| Alpine:v3.11 | perl | 5.10.0-r0, 5.10.0-r1, 5.10.1-r0 |
| Alpine:v3.19 | perl | 0, 5.10.0-r0, 5.10.1-r0 |
| Alpine:v3.10 | perl | 5.14.2-r1, 5.10.0-r0, 5.20.2-r0 |
…and 2 more
Timeline
- Sep 19, 2017 CVE Published
- Jun 15, 2026 CVE Updated
- Aug 8, 2026 Distribution Patch