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IBM AIX: perl_advisory8 (CVE-2023-47038): Vulnerability in perl affects AIX

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IBM AIX: perl_advisory8 (CVE-2023-47038): Vulnerability in perl affects AIX

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/18/2023
Created
02/23/2024
Added
02/22/2024
Modified
06/03/2024

Description

A vulnerability was found in perl 5.30.0 through 5.38.0. 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.

Solution(s)

  • ibm-aix-perl_advisory8

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