{"id":"ALPINE-CVE-2024-56406","details":"A heap buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in Perl. \n\nRelease branches 5.34, 5.36, 5.38 and 5.40 are affected, including development versions from 5.33.1 through 5.41.10.\n\nWhen there are non-ASCII bytes in the left-hand-side of the `tr` operator, `S_do_trans_invmap` can overflow the destination pointer `d`.\n\n   $ perl -e '$_ = \"\\x{FF}\" x 1000000; tr/\\xFF/\\x{100}/;' \n   Segmentation fault (core dumped)\n\nIt is believed that this vulnerability can enable Denial of Service and possibly Code Execution attacks on platforms that lack sufficient defenses.","modified":"2026-09-15T08:17:47.924911505Z","published":"2025-04-13T14:15:14.527Z","upstream":["CVE-2024-56406"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2024-56406"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"perl","ecosystem":"Alpine:v3.18","purl":"pkg:apk/alpine/perl?arch=source"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.33.1"},{"fixed":"5.36.2-r1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2024-56406.json"}},{"package":{"name":"perl","ecosystem":"Alpine:v3.19","purl":"pkg:apk/alpine/perl?arch=source"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.33.1"},{"fixed":"5.38.3-r1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2024-56406.json"}},{"package":{"name":"perl","ecosystem":"Alpine:v3.20","purl":"pkg:apk/alpine/perl?arch=source"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.33.1"},{"fixed":"5.38.3-r1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2024-56406.json"}},{"package":{"name":"perl","ecosystem":"Alpine:v3.21","purl":"pkg:apk/alpine/perl?arch=source"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.33.1"},{"fixed":"5.40.1-r1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2024-56406.json"}},{"package":{"name":"perl","ecosystem":"Alpine:v3.22","purl":"pkg:apk/alpine/perl?arch=source"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.33.1"},{"fixed":"5.40.1-r1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2024-56406.json"}},{"package":{"name":"perl","ecosystem":"Alpine:v3.23","purl":"pkg:apk/alpine/perl?arch=source"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.33.1"},{"fixed":"5.40.1-r1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2024-56406.json"}},{"package":{"name":"perl","ecosystem":"Alpine:v3.24","purl":"pkg:apk/alpine/perl?arch=source"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.33.1"},{"fixed":"5.40.1-r1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2024-56406.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}