CPANSA-perl-2015-8853: perl vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2016-05-25T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.25
Current release date 2016-05-25T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score 7.5 Severity High
Original language Language en
Also referred to

Vulnerability Description

The (1) S_reghop3, (2) S_reghop4, and (3) S_reghopmaybe3 functions in regexec.c in Perl before 5.24.0 allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via crafted utf-8 data, as demonstrated by "a\x80."

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-8853

Vulnerability Description

The (1) S_reghop3, (2) S_reghop4, and (3) S_reghopmaybe3 functions in regexec.c in Perl before 5.24.0 allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via crafted utf-8 data, as demonstrated by "a\x80."

Weakness CWE-20 : Improper Input Validation

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
perl less than 5.24.0
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
3.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H 7.5 High
2.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P 5.0 Medium
Fixed

giterlizzi

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gdt@cpan.org

References

Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Wed May 25 00:00:00 2016 First release

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