{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2012-10-10T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "perl: heap buffer overrun flaw may lead to arbitrary code execution",
    "id" : "862413",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=862413"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "5.1",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "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." ],
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Perl project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Tim Brown as the original reporter.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2013-03-26T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2013:0685",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "perl-4:5.8.8-40.el5_9"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2013-03-26T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2013:0685",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "perl-4:5.10.1-130.el6_4"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "perl",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-5195\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5195" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2012-5195",
  "csaw" : false
}