{ "document": { "category": "csaf_security_advisory", "csaf_version": "2.0", "distribution": { "tlp": { "label": "WHITE", "url": "https://www.first.org/tlp/" } }, "lang": "en", "notes": [ { "category": "description", "text": "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": "Vulnerability Description" } ], "publisher": { "category": "other", "contact_details": "gdt@cpan.org", "name": "giterlizzi", "namespace": "https://github.com/giterlizzi/" }, "references": [ { "category": "self", "summary": "CPANSA-Storable-2017-20230 JSON", "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/giterlizzi/perl-CPANSA-CSAF/develop/csaf/white/2026/cpansa-storable-2017-20230.json" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/a258c17c6937f79529c8319a829310e09cdbd216.patch", "url": "https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/a258c17c6937f79529c8319a829310e09cdbd216.patch" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15831", "url": "https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15831" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://metacpan.org/release/RURBAN/Storable-3.05/changes", "url": "https://metacpan.org/release/RURBAN/Storable-3.05/changes" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242533.html", "url": "https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242533.html" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242703.html", "url": "https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/01/msg242703.html" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/21/5", "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/21/5" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "CVE-2017-20230 (NVD)", "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-20230" } ], "title": "Storable vulnerability", "tracking": { "current_release_date": "2026-04-21T00:00:00", "generator": { "engine": { "name": "CSAF Perl Toolkit", "version": "0.26" } }, "id": "CPANSA-Storable-2017-20230", "initial_release_date": "2026-04-21T00:00:00", "revision_history": [ { "date": "2026-04-21T00:00:00", "number": "1", "summary": "First release" } ], "status": "final", "version": "1" } }, "product_tree": { "branches": [ { "branches": [ { "category": "product_version_range", "name": "vers:cpan/<3.05", "product": { "name": "Storable less than 3.05", "product_id": "CSAFPID-0001", "product_identification_helper": { "purl": "pkg:cpan/Storable" } } }, { "category": "product_version_range", "name": "vers:cpan/>=3.05", "product": { "name": "Storable greater than or equal 3.05", "product_id": "CSAFPID-0002", "product_identification_helper": { "purl": "pkg:cpan/Storable" } } } ], "category": "product_name", "name": "Storable" } ] }, "vulnerabilities": [ { "cve": "CVE-2017-20230", "cwe": { "id": "CWE-121", "name": "Stack-based Buffer Overflow" }, "notes": [ { "category": "description", "text": "Storable versions before 3.05 for Perl has a stack overflow.\n\nThe 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": "Vulnerability Description" } ], "product_status": { "fixed": [ "CSAFPID-0002" ], "known_affected": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] }, "scores": [ { "cvss_v3": { "baseScore": 10.0, "baseSeverity": "CRITICAL", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H", "version": "3.1" }, "products": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] } ] } ] }