7.5 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.032 Low
EPSS
Percentile
90.1%
Perl is a high-level programming language commonly used for system
administration utilities and Web programming.
A flaw was found in Perlβs regular expression engine. Specially crafted
input to a regular expression can cause Perl to improperly allocate memory,
possibly resulting in arbitrary code running with the permissions of the
user running Perl. (CVE-2007-5116)
Users of Perl are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain a backported patch to resolve this issue.
Red Hat would like to thank Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry for properly
disclosing this issue.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
RedHat | any | ppc | perl-cgi | <Β 2.89-97.EL3 | perl-CGI-2.89-97.EL3.ppc.rpm |
RedHat | any | i386 | perl-db_file | <Β 1.806-97.EL3 | perl-DB_File-1.806-97.EL3.i386.rpm |
RedHat | any | ppc | perl-db_file | <Β 1.806-97.EL3 | perl-DB_File-1.806-97.EL3.ppc.rpm |
RedHat | any | ia64 | perl-cpan | <Β 1.61-97.EL3 | perl-CPAN-1.61-97.EL3.ia64.rpm |
RedHat | 5 | ppc | perl | <Β 5.8.8-10.el5_0.2 | perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2.ppc.rpm |
RedHat | any | i386 | perl-cgi | <Β 2.89-97.EL3 | perl-CGI-2.89-97.EL3.i386.rpm |
RedHat | 5 | i386 | perl-suidperl | <Β 5.8.8-10.el5_0.2 | perl-suidperl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2.i386.rpm |
RedHat | any | i386 | perl | <Β 5.8.0-97.EL3 | perl-5.8.0-97.EL3.i386.rpm |
RedHat | 5 | src | perl | <Β 5.8.8-10.el5_0.2 | perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2.src.rpm |
RedHat | any | x86_64 | perl-cpan | <Β 1.61-97.EL3 | perl-CPAN-1.61-97.EL3.x86_64.rpm |