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.

EPSS: 0.022 (80.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Perl — versions 5.10.1
  • N/a — versions n/a

References