CVE-2012-5195 (GCVE-0-2012-5195)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-12-18 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:58
VLAI?
Summary
Heap-based buffer overflow in the Perl_repeatcpy function in util.c in Perl 5.12.x before 5.12.5, 5.14.x before 5.14.3, and 5.15.x before 15.15.5 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via the 'x' string repeat operator.
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CWE
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