Bug 2249523 (CVE-2023-47038)

Summary: CVE-2023-47038 perl: Write past buffer end via illegal user-defined Unicode property
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Mauro Matteo Cascella <mcascell>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: ahanwate, jplesnik, mspacek, security-response-team
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OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: perl-5.32.1 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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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.
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Bug Depends On: 2251625, 2251622, 2251623, 2251624    
Bug Blocks: 2249528, 2255480    

Description Mauro Matteo Cascella 2023-11-13 16:43:20 UTC
A crafted regular expression when compiled by perl 5.30.0 through 5.38.0 can cause a one attacker controlled byte buffer overflow in a heap allocated buffer.

Comment 4 Avinash Hanwate 2023-11-27 02:14:51 UTC
Created perl tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2251622]


Created perl:5.32/perl tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2251623]


Created perl:5.34/perl tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2251624]


Created perl:5.36/perl tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2251625]

Comment 5 Sandipan Roy 2024-01-02 05:52:27 UTC
*** Bug 2255476 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2024-04-30 09:51:36 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2024:2228 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2228