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Unscored USN-4602-1 3 CVEs

perl vulnerabilities

Published Oct 26, 2020 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Summary

ManhND discovered that Perl incorrectly handled certain regular
expressions. In environments where untrusted regular expressions are
evaluated, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Perl to
crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary
code. (CVE-2020-10543)

Hugo van der Sanden and Slaven Rezic discovered that Perl incorrectly
handled certain regular expressions. In environments where untrusted
regular expressions are evaluated, a remote attacker could possibly use
this issue to cause Perl to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or
possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-10878)

Sergey Aleynikov discovered that Perl incorrectly handled certain regular
expressions. In environments where untrusted regular expressions are
evaluated, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Perl to
crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary
code. (CVE-2020-12723)

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 16.04 LTS 16.04:LTS perl 5.22.1-9ubuntu0.9
Ubuntu · 18.04 LTS 18.04:LTS perl 5.26.1-6ubuntu0.5
Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS perl 5.30.0-9ubuntu0.2

Vulnerabilities 3

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-10543
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-10878
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-12723