Upstream information

CVE-2012-5195 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.5
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial
SUSE Bugzilla entries: 794535 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 854385 [NEEDINFO]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.


Status of this issue by product and package

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Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SLES15-SP5-CHOST-BYOS-Aliyun perl Analysis
SLES15-SP5-CHOST-BYOS-Azure perl Analysis
SLES15-SP5-CHOST-BYOS-EC2 perl Analysis
SLES15-SP5-CHOST-BYOS-GCE perl Analysis
SLES15-SP5-CHOST-BYOS-SAP-CCloud perl Analysis
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 perl Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP5 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP5 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP5 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP4 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP5 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP3 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5 perl Analysis
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 perl Analysis
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 perl Analysis
SUSE Manager Server 4.3 perl Analysis
Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes.
SLES15-EC2-CHOST-HVM-BYOS perl Analysis
SLES15-SP1-CHOST-BYOS-Azure perl Analysis
SLES15-SP1-CHOST-BYOS-EC2 perl Analysis
SLES15-SP1-CHOST-BYOS-GCE perl Analysis
SLES15-SP2-CHOST-BYOS-Aliyun perl Analysis
SLES15-SP2-CHOST-BYOS-Azure perl Analysis
SLES15-SP2-CHOST-BYOS-EC2 perl Analysis
SLES15-SP2-CHOST-BYOS-GCE perl Analysis
SLES15-SP3-CHOST-BYOS-Aliyun perl Analysis
SLES15-SP3-CHOST-BYOS-Azure perl Analysis
SLES15-SP3-CHOST-BYOS-EC2 perl Analysis
SLES15-SP3-CHOST-BYOS-GCE perl Analysis
SLES15-SP3-CHOST-BYOS-SAP-CCloud perl Analysis
SLES15-SP4-CHOST-BYOS perl Analysis
SLES15-SP4-CHOST-BYOS-Aliyun perl Analysis
SLES15-SP4-CHOST-BYOS-Azure perl Analysis
SLES15-SP4-CHOST-BYOS-EC2 perl Analysis
SLES15-SP4-CHOST-BYOS-GCE perl Analysis
SLES15-SP4-CHOST-BYOS-SAP-CCloud perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP4 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-ESPOS perl Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-LTSS perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 perl Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-ESPOS perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-LTSS perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3 perl Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-ESPOS perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-ESPOS perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS perl Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP2 perl Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP3 perl Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP4 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP2 perl Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP3 perl Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP4 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 perl Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-LTSS perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 perl Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-LTSS perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4-LTSS perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-ESPOS perl Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Business Critical Linux 15 SP1 perl Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 perl Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2 perl Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 perl Unsupported
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
HPE Helion OpenStack 8 perl Analysis
SUSE CaaS Platform 3.0 perl Analysis
SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0 perl Analysis
SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 perl Analysis
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7 perl Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP1 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP2 perl Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP3 perl Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.0 perl Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP1 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP1 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP1 perl Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP2 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP3 perl Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service 11 SP3 perl Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP2 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP4 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 LTSS perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1-LTSS perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-ESPOS perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-BCL perl Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-ESPOS perl Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS perl Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-ESPOS perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-LTSS perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-BCL perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-LTSS perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-BCL perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-BCL perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS perl Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 perl Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 perl Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 perl Analysis
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0 perl Unsupported
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.1 perl Unsupported
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.2 perl Unsupported
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.0 perl Unsupported
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.1 perl Unsupported
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.2 perl Unsupported
SUSE Manager Server 4.0 perl Unsupported
SUSE Manager Server 4.1 perl Unsupported
SUSE Manager Server 4.2 perl Unsupported
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 perl Analysis
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 perl Analysis
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 perl Analysis
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 perl Analysis
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 perl Analysis
Container Status
bci/dotnet-aspnet:5.0
bci/dotnet-runtime:5.0
bci/dotnet-sdk:5.0
rancher/elemental-channel
rancher/elemental-rt-channel
ses/7.1/ceph/haproxy
ses/7.1/ceph/keepalived
suse/manager/5.0/x86_64/server
suse/manager/5.0/x86_64/server-migration-14-16
suse/nginx
suse/pcp
suse/pcp:5
suse/registry
suse/rmt-mariadb
suse/rmt-nginx
suse/sle-micro-iso/5.5
suse/sle-micro-iso/base-5.5
suse/sle-micro/5.0/toolbox
suse/sle-micro/5.1/toolbox
suse/sle-micro/5.2/toolbox
suse/sle-micro/5.3/toolbox
suse/sle-micro/5.4/toolbox
suse/sle-micro/5.5
suse/sle-micro/5.5/toolbox
suse/sle-micro/rt-5.5
suse/sles/15.2/virt-launcher:0.38.1
suse/sles/15.3/libguestfs-tools:0.45.0
suse/sles/15.3/virt-launcher:0.45.0
suse/sles/15.4/libguestfs-tools:0.49.0
suse/sles/15.4/virt-launcher:0.49.0
suse/sles/15.6/libguestfs-tools:1.1.1
perlAnalysis


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 19:38:31 2013
CVE page last modified: Wed Mar 6 20:12:18 2024