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
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.048 (92.0th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 92nd percentile — 92.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.048 · newest: 0.048 · change: 0.000
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 Linux — versions 1
- Debian Linux — versions 3.1, 4.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux — versions 3.0, 4.0, 5.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop — versions 3.0, 4.0
- Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation — versions 2.1
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/27479 (third-party-advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1400 (vendor-advisory)
- marc.info/ (vendor-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4238 (vdb-entry)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/27936 (third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483563/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- secunia.com/advisories/28993 (third-party-advisory)
- www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss (vendor-advisory)