| Name | CVE-2023-47038 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 1056746 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| perl (PTS) | buster | 5.28.1-6+deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 5.32.1-4+deb11u3 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 5.32.1-4+deb11u1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 5.36.0-7+deb12u1 | fixed |
| trixie | 5.38.2-3 | fixed |
| sid | 5.38.2-3.2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| perl | source | buster | (not affected) | | | |
| perl | source | bullseye | 5.32.1-4+deb11u3 | | | |
| perl | source | bookworm | 5.36.0-7+deb12u1 | | | |
| perl | source | (unstable) | 5.36.0-10 | | | 1056746 |
Notes
[buster] - perl <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
Fixed by: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/12c313ce49b36160a7ca2e9b07ad5bd92ee4a010 (v5.34.2)
Fixed by: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/7047915eef37fccd93e7cd985c29fe6be54650b6 (v5.36.2)
Fixed by: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/92a9eb3d0d52ec7655c1beb29999a5a5219be664 (v5.38.1)
Fixed by: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/ff1f9f59360afeebd6f75ca1502f5c3ebf077da3 (bleed)