// For flags

CVE-2008-1927

perl: heap corruption by regular expressions with utf8 characters

Severity Score

5.0
*CVSS v2

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

0
*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

-
*KEV

Decision

-
*SSVC
Descriptions

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.

Vulnerabilidad de doble liberacioón en Perl 5.8.8 permite a los atacantes, dependiendo del contexto, causar una denegación de servicio (corrupción de memoria y caida) a través de expresiones regulares manipuladas conteniendo caracteres UTF8. NOTE: esta característica solo está presente en ciertos sistemas operativos.

*Credits: N/A
CVSS Scores
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial
* Common Vulnerability Scoring System
SSVC
  • Decision:-
Exploitation
-
Automatable
-
Tech. Impact
-
* Organization's Worst-case Scenario
Timeline
  • 2008-04-23 CVE Reserved
  • 2008-04-23 CVE Published
  • 2024-08-07 CVE Updated
  • 2024-09-25 EPSS Updated
  • ---------- Exploited in Wild
  • ---------- KEV Due Date
  • ---------- First Exploit
CWE
  • CWE-399: Resource Management Errors
CAPEC
References (42)
URL Tag Source
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=454792 X_refsource_confirm
http://osvdb.org/44588 Vdb Entry
http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=48156 X_refsource_misc
http://secunia.com/advisories/29948 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/30025 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/30326 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/30624 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/31208 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/31328 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/31467 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/31604 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/31687 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/33314 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/33937 Third Party Advisory
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438 X_refsource_confirm
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-317.htm X_refsource_confirm
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-361.htm X_refsource_confirm
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0011 X_refsource_confirm
http://www.ipcop.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=41 X_refsource_confirm
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500210/100/0/threaded Mailing List
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28928 Vdb Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020253 Vdb Entry
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0013.html X_refsource_confirm
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2265/references Vdb Entry
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2361 Vdb Entry
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2424 Vdb Entry
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0422 Vdb Entry
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41996 Vdb Entry
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10579 Signature
URL Date SRC
URL Date SRC
URL Date SRC
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html 2018-10-11
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html 2018-10-11
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1556 2018-10-11
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-17.xml 2018-10-11
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:100 2018-10-11
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0522.html 2018-10-11
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0532.html 2018-10-11
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-1 2018-10-11
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-2 2018-10-11
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00601.html 2018-10-11
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00607.html 2018-10-11
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-1927 2010-08-04
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443928 2010-08-04
Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
Vendor Product Version Other Status
Vendor Product Version Other Status <-- --> Vendor Product Version Other Status
Perl
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 Perl
Search vendor "Perl" for product "Perl"
 5.8.8
Search vendor "Perl" for product "Perl" and version "5.8.8"
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Affected