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CVE-2024-56406 CPAN Security Group
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CVE ID: CVE-2024-56406
Distribution: perl
Versions: from 5.40.0 until 5.40.2
from 5.38.0 until 5.38.4
from 5.36.0 through 5.36.3
from 5.34.0 through 5.34.3
MetaCPAN: https://metacpan.org/dist/perl
VCS Repo: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/
Perl 5.34, 5.36, 5.38 and 5.40 are vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow
when transliterating non-ASCII bytes
Description
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A heap buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in Perl.
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.
Problem types
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CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
Mitigations
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Users should update perl to 5.40.2 or 5.38.4, or apply the upstream
patch provided in the References section.
References
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https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/87f42aa0e0096e9a346c9672aa3a0bd3bef8c1dd.patch
https://metacpan.org/release/SHAY/perl-5.38.4/changes
https://metacpan.org/release/SHAY/perl-5.40.2/changes
Credits
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Nathan Mills, finder
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Stig Palmquist
