CVE-2023-47038

A vulnerability was found in perl 5.30.0 through 5.38.0. This issue occurs when a crafted regular expression is compiled by perl, which can allow an attacker controlled byte buffer overflow in a heap allocated buffer.
References
Link Resource
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2228 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3128 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-47038 Broken Link Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1056746 Mailing List Patch
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2249523 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2228 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3128 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-47038 Broken Link Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1056746 Mailing List Patch
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2249523 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/12c313ce49b36160a7ca2e9b07ad5bd92ee4a010
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/7047915eef37fccd93e7cd985c29fe6be54650b6
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/ff1f9f59360afeebd6f75ca1502f5c3ebf077da3
https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy/discussions/8400
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/GNEEWAACXQCEEAKSG7XX2D5YDRWLCIZJ/ Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/UMDZZ4SCEW6FRWZDMXGAKZ35THTAWFG6/
https://perldoc.perl.org/perl5382delta#CVE-2023-47038-Write-past-buffer-end-via-illegal-user-defined-Unicode-property Vendor Advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-47100
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-47100.html
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 (hide)

cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:39:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 3 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_aus:9.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_eus:9.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

04 Nov 2025, 19:16

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References
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Information

Published : 2023-12-18 14:15

Updated : 2025-11-04 19:16


NVD link : CVE-2023-47038

Mitre link : CVE-2023-47038

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2023-47038


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Products Affected

redhat

  • enterprise_linux
  • enterprise_linux_eus
  • enterprise_linux_aus

fedoraproject

  • fedora

perl

  • perl
CWE
CWE-122

Heap-based Buffer Overflow

CWE-787

Out-of-bounds Write