CVE-2013-7422
N/A
Published: August 16, 2015 at 11:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:01 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsmacOSPerl
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%
Description
Integer underflow in regcomp.c in Perl before 5.20, as used in Apple OS X before 10.10.5 and other products, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long digit string associated with an invalid backreference within a regular expression.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (6)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Aug/msg00001.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/0c2990d652e985784f095bba4bc356481a66aa06Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-11Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-189
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