Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-10878 - Integer Overflow or Wraparound vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 8.6 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
LOW
Integrity impact
LOW
Availability impact
HIGH

Summary

Perl before 5.30.3 has an integer overflow related to mishandling of a "PL_regkind[OP(n)] == NOTHING" situation. A crafted regular expression could lead to malformed bytecode with a possibility of instruction injection.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Perl
468
Application
Netapp
2
Application
Oracle
41
OS
Fedoraproject
1
OS
Opensuse
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Forced Integer Overflow
    This attack forces an integer variable to go out of range. The integer variable is often used as an offset such as size of memory allocation or similarly. The attacker would typically control the value of such variable and try to get it out of range. For instance the integer in question is incremented past the maximum possible value, it may wrap to become a very small, or negative number, therefore providing a very incorrect value which can lead to unexpected behavior. At worst the attacker can execute arbitrary code.

Nessus

  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2020-4021BF2AE8.NASL
    descriptionFixed CVE-2020-10543, CVE-2020-10878 and CVE-2020-12723 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-12
    modified2020-06-05
    plugin id137157
    published2020-06-05
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/137157
    titleFedora 32 : 4:perl (2020-4021bf2ae8)
  • NASL familyGentoo Local Security Checks
    NASL idGENTOO_GLSA-202006-03.NASL
    descriptionThe remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202006-03 (Perl: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Perl. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time.
    last seen2020-06-13
    modified2020-06-12
    plugin id137383
    published2020-06-12
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/137383
    titleGLSA-202006-03 : Perl: Multiple vulnerabilities

References