Storable versions before 3.05 for Perl has a stack overflow.
The retrieve_hook function stored the length of the class name into a signed integer but in read operations treated the length as unsigned. This allowed an attacker to craft data that could trigger the overflow.
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| Description | Storable versions before 3.05 for Perl has a stack overflow. The retrieve_hook function stored the length of the class name into a signed integer but in read operations treated the length as unsigned. This allowed an attacker to craft data that could trigger the overflow. | |
| Title | Storable versions before 3.05 for Perl has a stack overflow | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-121 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: CPANSec
Published:
Updated: 2026-04-21T16:29:10.971Z
Reserved: 2026-03-28T19:24:26.125Z
Link: CVE-2017-20230
Updated: 2026-04-21T16:28:46.584Z
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-04-21T16:16:18.077
Modified: 2026-04-21T17:16:19.790
Link: CVE-2017-20230
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