CVE-2011-2939

EPSS 6.6%
Published: 1/13/2012Modified: 4/28/2026

Description

Off-by-one error in the decode_xs function in Unicode/Unicode.xs in the Encode module before 2.44, as used in Perl before 5.15.6, might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted Unicode string, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected packages (2)

References (1)