CVE-2009-3626
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5
5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
Perl 5.10.1 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a UTF-8 character with a large, invalid codepoint, which is not properly handled during a regular-expression match.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)2%
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.
Official patch: http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/0abd0d78a73da1c4d13b1c700526b7e5d03b32d4 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/0abd0d78a73da1c4d13b1c700526b7e5d03b32d4Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37144Advisory
- http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=69973
- http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Attachment/617489/295383/
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1023077
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/23/8
- http://www.osvdb.org/59283
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36812