5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.01 Low
EPSS
Percentile
81.8%
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. A specially crafted
regular expression with Unicode characters could trigger a buffer overflow,
causing Perl to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the user running Perl. (CVE-2008-1927)
Users of perl are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain a backported patch to resolve this issue.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
RedHat | 4 | i386 | perl-suidperl | <Β 5.8.8-6.el4s1_3 | perl-suidperl-5.8.8-6.el4s1_3.i386.rpm |
RedHat | 4 | i386 | perl | <Β 5.8.8-6.el4s1_3 | perl-5.8.8-6.el4s1_3.i386.rpm |
RedHat | 4 | x86_64 | perl-suidperl | <Β 5.8.8-6.el4s1_3 | perl-suidperl-5.8.8-6.el4s1_3.x86_64.rpm |
RedHat | 4 | x86_64 | perl | <Β 5.8.8-6.el4s1_3 | perl-5.8.8-6.el4s1_3.x86_64.rpm |