CVE-2010-1158

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Summary

CVECVE-2010-1158
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2010-04-20 15:30:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionInteger 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.

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-189 | 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 5.8.1 All All All
Application Perl Perl 5.8.2 All All All
Application Perl Perl 5.8.3 All All All
Application Perl Perl 5.8.4 All All All
Application Perl Perl 5.8.5 All All All
Application Perl Perl 5.8.6 All All All
Application Perl Perl 5.8.7 All All All
Application Perl Perl 5.8.8 All All All
Application Perl Perl 5.8.9 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
perl5100delta - perldoc.perl.org af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 perldoc.perl.org
oss-security - CVE Request -- perl v5.8.* -- stack overflow by processing certain regex (Gentoo BTS#313565 / RH BZ#580605) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
Bug 580605 – CVE-2010-1158 Perl: Stack overflow by processing a certain regular expression af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com
Gentoo Bug 313565 - dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r8: simple test program with regex segfaults (CVE-2010-1158) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.gentoo.org Exploit
oss-security - Re: CVE Request -- perl v5.8.* -- stack overflow by processing certain regex (Gentoo BTS#313565 / RH BZ#580605) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
Security Advisory SA55314 - Oracle Solaris Perl Multiple Vulnerabilities - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2010-04-22Tomas HogerThe Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact. The risks associated with fixing this bug are greater than the low severity security risk. We therefore currently have no plans to fix this flaw in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, or 5.

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