Vulnerability Details CVE-2024-56406
A heap buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in Perl.
Release branches 5.34, 5.36, 5.38 and 5.40 are affected, including development versions from 5.33.1 through 5.41.10.
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 15.3%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 8.6
Products affected by CVE-2024-56406
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.33.1
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.33.2
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.33.3
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.33.4
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.33.5
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.33.6
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.33.7
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.33.8
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.33.9
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.34.0
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.34.1
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.34.2
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.34.3
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.35.0
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.35.1
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.35.10
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.35.11
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.35.2
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.35.3
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.35.4
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.35.5
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.35.6
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.35.7
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.35.8
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.35.9
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.36.0
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.36.1
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.36.2
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.36.3
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.37.0
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.37.1
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.37.10
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.37.11
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.37.2
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.37.3
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.37.4
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.37.5
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.37.6
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.37.7
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.37.8
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.37.9
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.38.0
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.38.1
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.38.2
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.38.3
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.39.0
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.39.1
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.39.10
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.39.2
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.39.3
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.39.4
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.39.5
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.39.6
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.39.7
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.39.8
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.39.9
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.40.0
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.40.1
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.41.0
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.41.1
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.41.10
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.41.2
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.41.3
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.41.4
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.41.5
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.41.6
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.41.7
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.41.8
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cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.41.9