CVE-2024-56406 (GCVE-0-2024-56406)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-13 13:16 – Updated: 2025-10-16 14:04
VLAI
Title
Perl is vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow when transliterating non-ASCII bytes
Summary
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.
Severity
8.4 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
perl perl Affected: 5.41.0 , ≤ 5.41.10 (custom)
Affected: 5.39.0 , < 5.40.2-RC1 (custom)
Affected: 5.33.1 , < 5.38.4-RC1 (custom)
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Nathan Mills
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