Vulnerability in Perl
CVE-2009-3626
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.
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: 0.022 (81.7th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 82nd percentile — 81.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.022 · newest: 0.022 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Perl — versions 5.10.1
References
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3023 (Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/23/8 (mailing-list)
- www.osvdb.org/59283 (vdb-entry)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53939 (vdb-entry)
- rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Attachment/617489/295383/
- issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi
- rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html
- secunia.com/advisories/37144 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/0abd0d78a73da1c4d13b1c700526b7e5d03b32d4 (Patch)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/36812 (vdb-entry)