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HistoryFeb 16, 2021 - 7:35 a.m.

Moderate: perl security update

2021-02-1607:35:46
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perl
security update
regular expression
dos

EPSS

0.002

Percentile

61.7%

Perl is a high-level programming language that is commonly used for system administration utilities and web programming.

Security Fix(es):

  • perl: corruption of intermediate language state of compiled regular expression due to recursive S_study_chunk() calls leads to DoS (CVE-2020-12723)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.