CVE-2008-1927

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Summary

CVECVE-2008-1927
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-04-24 05:05:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionDouble 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-399 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Perl Perl 5.8.8 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

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Avaya Products Perl Regular Expressions Unicode Data Buffer Overflow - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0011 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 wiki.rpath.com
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: perl-5.8.8-39.fc8 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
USN-700-2: Perl regression | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
IPCop update for perl - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: perl-5.8.8-29.fc7 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
SUSE Update for Multiple Packages - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
ASA-2008-317 (RHSA-2008-0532) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 support.avaya.com
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report SUSE-SR:2008:017 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
Perl: Execution of arbitrary code — Gentoo Linux Documentation af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.gentoo.org
#454792 - double free and segfault on utf8 containing regexes - Debian Bug report logs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.debian.org
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Gentoo update for perl and libperl - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
Debian update for perl - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1556-2 perl af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
Fedora update for perl - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Red Hat update for perl - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
Perl Unicode '\Q...\E' Quoting Construct Regular Expression Buffer Overflow Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
USN-700-1: Perl vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
osvdb.org/44588 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org
VMware updates for OpenSSL, net-snmp, and perl - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
About the security content of Security Update 2009-001 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 support.apple.com
VUPEN Security - Offensive Cyber Security af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
Bug #48156 for perl5: regexp: unicode char causes a 'double free corruption' af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rt.perl.org
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2008:100 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
ASA-2008-361 (RHSA-2008-0522) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 support.avaya.com
APPLE-SA-2009-02-12 Security Update 2009-001 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.apple.com
Avaya Communication Manager Perl Regular Expressions Vulnerability - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Ubuntu update for perl - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Apple Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
VMSA-2008-0013.3 - VMware af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vmware.com
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
Perl UTF8 Regex Processing Double Free Bug May Let Users Execute Arbitrary Code - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com
IPCop 1.4.21 released :: IPCop.org :: The bad packets stop here! af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ipcop.org
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