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veracodeVeracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:11380
HistoryJan 15, 2019 - 9:01 a.m.

Denial Of Service (DoS)

2019-01-1509:01:13
Veracode Vulnerability Database
sca.analysiscenter.veracode.com
9

0.019 Low

EPSS

Percentile

88.7%

perl is vulnerable to denial of service (DoS) attacks. The vulnerability exists through a heap-based buffer overflow in the Perl_repeatcpy function in util.c in Perl 5.12.x before 5.12.5, 5.14.x before 5.14.3, and 5.15.x before 15.15.5 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via the ‘x’ string repeat operator.

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