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
- secalert@redhat.com (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)
- secalert@redhat.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_MISC)