UBUNTU-CVE-2023-47038

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2023-47038

    Published: 25 Nov 2023Last Modified: 20 May 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2023-47038
    Aliases:
    USN-6517-1

    Summary:

    Details: A vulnerability was found in perl 5.30.0 through 5.38.0. This issue occurs when a crafted regular expression is compiled by perl, which can allow an attacker controlled byte buffer overflow in a heap allocated buffer.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-47038, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6517-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-47038

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: perl6

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/perl6?arch=source&distro=bionic

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    6.c-1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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