K000138640 : Perl vulnerability CVE-2023-47038

Security Advisory Description

A vulnerability was found in perl. This issue occurs when a crafted regular expression is compiled by perl, which can allow an attacker controlled byte buffer overflow in a heap allocated buffer. (CVE-2023-47038)

Impact

This vulnerability could allow a local authenticated attacker to cause a degradation of service that can lead to a denial-of-service (DoS) or execute unauthorized code or commands.