FKIE_CVE-2017-20230

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-04-21 16:16 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:15
Severity
10.0 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Storable versions before 3.05 for Perl has a stack overflow. The retrieve_hook function stored the length of the class name into a signed integer but in read operations treated the length as unsigned. This allowed an attacker to craft data that could trigger the overflow.
References
9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441ehttps://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/a258c17c6937f79529c8319a829310e09cdbd216.patchPatch
9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441ehttps://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15831Issue Tracking
9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441ehttps://metacpan.org/release/RURBAN/Storable-3.05/changesRelease Notes
9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441ehttps://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242533.htmlThird Party Advisory
9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441ehttps://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242703.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/21/5Mailing List
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
nwclark storable *
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