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.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Access Vector
- network
- Access Cmplx
- low
- Auth
- none
- Confidentiality
- partial
- Integrity
- partial
- Availability
- partial
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- LARRY_WALL
- Published
- 11/7/2007
- Last Modified
- 4/9/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
larry_wall : perllarry_wall : perllarry_wall : perllarry_wall : perllarry_wall : perllarry_wall : perllarry_wall : perllarry_wall : perllarry_wall : perllarry_wall : perllarry_wall : perlmandrakesoft : mandrake_multi_network_firewallopenpkg : openpkgredhat : enterprise_linux
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