← CVE Intelligence

CVE-2024-56406

Perl is vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow when transliterating non-ASCII bytes PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

A heap buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in Perl. Release branches 5.34, 5.36, 5.38 and 5.40 are affected, including development versions from 5.33.1 through 5.41.10. When there are non-ASCII bytes in the left-hand-side of the `tr` operator, `S_do_trans_invmap` can overflow the destination pointer `d`.    $ perl -e '$_ = "\x{FF}" x 1000000; tr/\xFF/\x{100}/;'    Segmentation fault (core dumped) It is believed that this vulnerability can enable Denial of Service and possibly Code Execution attacks on platforms that lack sufficient defenses.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
perl / perlaffected 5.41.0 through 5.41.10; affected 5.39.0 before 5.40.2-RC1; affected 5.33.1 before 5.38.4-RC1

CWE

CWE-122, CWE-787

References

ADP enrichment

CVE

No English description supplied.

CISA-ADP

No English description supplied.

No references supplied.