Debian: DSA-5902-1 critical: perl buffer overflow exploitation

Apr13
by Ike on April 13, 2025 at 2:37 pm
Posted In: Debian Linux Distribution - Security Advisories

Debian advisory on Perl buffer overflow vulnerability.

Nathan Mills discovered a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the implementation of the Perl programming language when transliterating non-ASCII bytes with tr///, which may result in denial of service, or potentially the execution of arbitrary code.

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