USN-4602-2: perl Ubuntu

CVSS: UnknownPublished
Published 27-10-2020Last modified 22-04-2026

Vulnerability summary

USN-4602-2 is a vulnerability in perl Ubuntu with no CVSS score yet.

Overall risk
0/100
0100
Minimal · default modelHow is this calculated?
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010
No CVSS score recorded
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KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 3 · Downstream 0 · Related 3

Timeline

  1. 27-10-2020
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 22-04-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

perl vulnerabilities USN-4602-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Perl. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. Original advisory details: 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)

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Affected systems

Ubuntu1 product
  • perl< 5.18.2-2ubuntu1.7+esm3

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