Vulnerability in Perl

CVE-2010-1158

Integer overflow in the regular expression engine in Perl 5.8.x allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and application crash) by matching a crafted regular expression against a long string.

EPSS: 0.020 (78.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Perl — versions 5.8.8, 5.8.5, 5.8.1
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References