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Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

CVE-2024-55564

High
9.8/10

Summary

The POSIX::2008 package before 0.24 for Perl has a potential _execve50c env buffer overflow.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-120 - Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

The program copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow.

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