CVE-2023-47039
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-01-02 05:30
Modified
2024-11-06 14:44
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Perl: perl for windows binary hijacking vulnerability
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-47039Third 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=2249525Issue Tracking
Impacted products
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 9
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