Format String Vulnerability in Perl_sv_vcatpvfn

CVE-2005-3962 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Integer overflow in the format string functionality (Perl_sv_vcatpvfn) in Perl 5.9.2 and 5.8.6 Perl allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary memory and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers with large values, which causes an integer wrap and leads to a buffer overflow, as demonstrated using format string vulnerabilities in Perl applications.

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