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CVE-2011-2939 (GCVE-0-2011-2939)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-01-13 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 23:15
VLAI?
Summary
Off-by-one error in the decode_xs function in Unicode/Unicode.xs in the Encode module before 2.44, as used in Perl before 5.15.6, might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted Unicode string, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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