VulnerabilityModified
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.
MEDIUM 5.0EPSS 2.04%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.04%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
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.
- CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- EPSS
- 2.04% probability · 80th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-189
- Affected
- perl/perl
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313565Exploit
- http://perldoc.perl.org/perl5100delta.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55314
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/08/9
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/14/3
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=580605
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313565Exploit
- http://perldoc.perl.org/perl5100delta.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55314
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/08/9
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/14/3
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=580605
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.