CVE-2023-47038
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-12-18 13:43
Modified
2025-10-07 17:43
Severity ?
7.0 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Perl: write past buffer end via illegal user-defined unicode property
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2228Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3128Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-47038Broken Link, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1056746Mailing List, Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2249523Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2228Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3128Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-47038Broken Link, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1056746Mailing List, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2249523Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/12c313ce49b36160a7ca2e9b07ad5bd92ee4a010
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/7047915eef37fccd93e7cd985c29fe6be54650b6
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/ff1f9f59360afeebd6f75ca1502f5c3ebf077da3
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy/discussions/8400
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GNEEWAACXQCEEAKSG7XX2D5YDRWLCIZJ/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://perldoc.perl.org/perl5382delta#CVE-2023-47038-Write-past-buffer-end-via-illegal-user-defined-Unicode-propertyVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-47100
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-47100.html
Impacted products
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 8
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