CPANSA-perl-2007-5116: perl vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2007-11-07T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.25
Current release date 2007-11-07T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score Severity
Original language Language en
Also referred to

Vulnerability Description

Buffer overflow in the polymorphic opcode support in the Regular Expression Engine (regcomp.c) in Perl 5.8 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code by switching from byte to Unicode (UTF) characters in a regular expression.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2007-5116

Vulnerability Description

Buffer overflow in the polymorphic opcode support in the Regular Expression Engine (regcomp.c) in Perl 5.8 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code by switching from byte to Unicode (UTF) characters in a regular expression.

Weakness CWE-119 : Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
perl less than or equal 5.8.8
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
2.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P 7.5 High

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References

Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Wed Nov 7 00:00:00 2007 First release

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