Buffer overflow in Larry Wall Perl
CVE-2007-5116
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.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
EPSS: 0.048 (91.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Larry_wall Perl — versions 5.8.0, 5.8.1, 5.8.3
- Mandrakesoft Mandrake_linux — versions 2007, 2007.1, 2008.0
- Mandrakesoft Mandrake_linux_corporate_server — versions 3.0, 4.0
- Mandrakesoft Mandrake_multi_network_firewall — versions 2.0
- Openpkg — versions current
- Rpath Rpath_linux — versions 1
- Debian Debian_linux — versions 3.1, 4.0
- Redhat Enterprise_linux — versions 3.0, 4.0, 5.0
- Redhat Enterprise_linux_desktop — versions 3.0, 4.0
- Redhat Linux_advanced_workstation — versions 2.1
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_HP, vendor-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN)
- cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_AIXAPAR)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_AIXAPAR)