High
Security advisory
regcomp.c in Perl before 5.30.3 allows a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression because of recursive S_study_chunk calls.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-12723
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:36 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
regcomp.c in Perl before 5.30.3 allows a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression because of recursive S_study_chunk calls.
osv:CVE-2020-12723
Complete source record
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