VulnerabilityModified
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.
MEDIUM 5.0EPSS 3.15%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (3.15%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
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.
- CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- EPSS
- 3.15% probability · 87th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-399
- Affected
- perl/perl
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
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
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.