CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.5. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2012-5195
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
4.88%
Original NVD Description
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.