CVE-2008-1927
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5 · CWE-399
5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
Double free vulnerability in Perl 5.8.8 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via a crafted regular expression containing UTF8 characters. NOTE: this issue might only be present on certain operating systems.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)3%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=454792
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html
- http://osvdb.org/44588
- http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=48156
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29948
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30025
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30326