CPANSA-perl-2013-7422: perl vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2015-08-16T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.25
Current release date 2015-08-16T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score Severity
Original language Language en
Also referred to

Vulnerability Description

Integer underflow in regcomp.c in Perl before 5.20, as used in Apple OS X before 10.10.5 and other products, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long digit string associated with an invalid backreference within a regular expression.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2013-7422

Vulnerability Description

Integer underflow in regcomp.c in Perl before 5.20, as used in Apple OS X before 10.10.5 and other products, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long digit string associated with an invalid backreference within a regular expression.

Weakness CWE-189 : Numeric Errors

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
perl less than 5.20.0
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 Sun Aug 16 00:00:00 2015 First release

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