| Name | CVE-2017-12883 |
| Description | Buffer overflow in the regular expression parser in PERL before 5.24.3-RC1 and 5.26.x before 5.26.1-RC1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or leak data from memory via vectors involving use of RExC_parse in the vFAIL macro. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SuSE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-3982-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 875597 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| perl (PTS) | wheezy | 5.14.2-21+deb7u3 | fixed |
| wheezy (security) | 5.14.2-21+deb7u5 | fixed | |
| jessie | 5.20.2-3+deb8u8 | vulnerable | |
| jessie (security) | 5.20.2-3+deb8u9 | fixed | |
| stretch | 5.24.1-3+deb9u1 | vulnerable | |
| stretch (security) | 5.24.1-3+deb9u2 | fixed | |
| buster, sid | 5.26.0-8 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| perl | source | (unstable) | 5.26.0-8 | 875597 | ||
| perl | source | jessie | 5.20.2-3+deb8u9 | DSA-3982-1 | ||
| perl | source | stretch | 5.24.1-3+deb9u2 | DSA-3982-1 | ||
| perl | source | wheezy | (not affected) |
[wheezy] - perl <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=131598 (not yet public)
https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/2be4edede4ae226e2eebd4eff28cedd2041f300f
maint-5.26: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/2692dda97731c37082a0075eff50d741901c665f
maint-5.24: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/40b3cdad3649334585cee8f4630ec9a025e62be6