CVE-2024-55564

Publication date 9 December 2024

Last updated 26 August 2025


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

Description

The POSIX::2008 package before 0.24 for Perl has a potential _execve50c env buffer overflow.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libposix-2008-perl 26.04 LTS resolute
Not affected
25.10 questing
Not affected
25.04 plucky
Not affected
24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Needs evaluation
22.04 LTS jammy
Needs evaluation
20.04 LTS focal
Needs evaluation
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored end of ESM support, was needs-triage

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H


Access our resources on patching vulnerabilities