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.

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.0 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2008-04-24

Last modified

2024-08-07

Weaknesses

CWE-399

Affected products

• Perl (Perl)

References

• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=454792
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html
• http://osvdb.org/44588
• http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=48156
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29948
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30025
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30326
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30624
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31208
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31328
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31467
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31604
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31687
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33314
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33937
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438
• http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-317.htm
• http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-361.htm
• http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0011
• http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1556
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-17.xml
• http://www.ipcop.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=41
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:100
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0522.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0532.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500210/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28928
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020253
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-1