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.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2023-47038

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 5.06% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-03 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2228
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3128
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-47038
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1056746
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2249523

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