CVE-2012-5195

EPSS 5.3%

perl - several

Published: 12/18/2012Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2012-5195

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the Perl_repeatcpy function in util.c in Perl 5.12.x before 5.12.5, 5.14.x before 5.14.3, and 5.15.x before 15.15.5 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via the 'x' string repeat operator.

Affected packages (2)

References (1)