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OESA-2025-1470 (CVE-2024-56406)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2025-05-09 11:08 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:08 – Source website

Summary

perl security update

Details

Perl 5 is a highly capable, feature-rich programming language with over 30 years of development. Perl 5 runs on over 100 platforms from portables to mainframes and is suitable for both rapid prototyping and large scale development projects.

Security Fix(es):

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.(CVE-2024-56406)

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/zh/security/security-bu…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-56406	ADVISORY

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-13 13:16 – Updated: 2025-10-16 14:04

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 · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-10-16 14:04 UTC

CWE

CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow
CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds Write

Assigner

CPANSec redhat root

References

6 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/87f42aa0e009…	patch
https://metacpan.org/release/SHAY/perl-5.38.4/changes	release-notes
https://metacpan.org/release/SHAY/perl-5.40.2/changes	release-notes
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/04/13/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/04/13/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/04/13/5

Impacted products

1 product

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)

Credits

Nathan Mills

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