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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2009-3626

Perl 5.10.1 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a UTF-8 character with a large, invalid codepoint, which is not properly handled during a regular-expression match.

MEDIUM 5.0EPSS 2.19%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.19%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

Perl 5.10.1 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a UTF-8 character with a large, invalid codepoint, which is not properly handled during a regular-expression match.

CVSS 2.0
5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
2.19% probability · 81th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Affected
perl/perl
Source
secalert@redhat.com

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.