Vulnerability in Perl
CVE-2008-1927
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.032 (87.5th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 87th percentile — 87.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.032 · newest: 0.032 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Perl — versions 5.8.8
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html (vendor-advisory)
- support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-317.htm
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2424 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/31328 (third-party-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00607.html (vendor-advisory)
- osvdb.org/44588 (vdb-entry)
- wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0011
- secunia.com/advisories/33937 (third-party-advisory)
- rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0532.html (vendor-advisory)