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.

EPSS: 0.032 (86.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Perl — versions 5.8.8
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References