CVE-2008-1927
N/A
Published: April 23, 2008 at 05:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:52 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorPerl
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%
Description
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1556
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-17.xml
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:100
References (40)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.htmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-399
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