Off-by-one error in the decode_xs function in Unicode/Unicode.xs in the Encode module before 2.44, as used in Perl before 5.15.6, might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted Unicode string, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 1 | perl | 2011-11-09 21:48 | ALAS-2011-19 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv2 | 5.1 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 5.1 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |