CVE-2017-12883

Buffer overflow in the S_grok_bslash_N function in regcomp.c in Perl 5 before 5.24.3-RC1 and 5.26.x before 5.26.1-RC1 allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted regular expression with an invalid ‘N{U+…}’ escape.

Date published : 2017-09-19

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100852

http://mirror.cucumberlinux.com/cucumber/cucumber-1.0/source/lang-base/perl/patches/CVE-2017-12883.patch