VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2007-5116
Buffer overflow in the polymorphic opcode support in the Regular Expression Engine (regcomp.c) in Perl 5.8 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code by switching from byte to Unicode (UTF) characters in a regular expression.
HIGH 7.5EPSS 4.83%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (4.83%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Buffer overflow in the polymorphic opcode support in the Regular Expression Engine (regcomp.c) in Perl 5.8 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code by switching from byte to Unicode (UTF) characters in a regular expression.
- CVSS 2.0
- 7.5 HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- EPSS
- 4.83% probability · 91th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- Affected
- larry wall/perl · mandrakesoft/mandrake multi network firewall · openpkg/openpkg · redhat/enterprise linux
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- ftp://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/README
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html
- http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000002.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=120352263023774&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27479
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27515
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27531Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27546
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27548
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27570
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27613
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27756
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27936
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28167
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28368
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28387
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28993
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29074
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31208
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1018899
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-31524-1
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-231524-1
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1018985.1-1
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-014.htm
- http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ10220
- http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ10244
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1400
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-28.xml
- http://www.ipcop.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=41
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.