USN-6517-1 (UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48522)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2023-11-27 14:15 – Updated: 2026-04-27 14:11 – Source website
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It was discovered that Perl incorrectly handled printing certain warning messages. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Perl to consume resources, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-48522)

Nathan Mills discovered that Perl incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. An attacker could use this issue to cause Perl to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-47038)

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