CVE-2007-5116

Buffer overflow in the polymorphic opcode support in the Regular Expression Engine regcomp.c in Perl 5.8 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code by switching from byte to Unicode UTF characters in a regular expression...

CVE-2007-1662

Perl-Compatible Regular Expression PCRE library before 7.3 reads past the end of the string when searching for unmatched brackets and parentheses, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service crash, possibly involving forward references...

CVE-2007-5116

Buffer overflow in the polymorphic opcode support in the Regular Expression Engine regcomp.c in Perl 5.8 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code by switching from byte to Unicode UTF characters in a regular expression...

CVE-2007-1662

The documents confirm CVE-2007-1662 affects the PCRE library and causes a denial-of-service (crash) by reading past the end of the string when unmatched brackets/parentheses are searched; vulnerable in PCRE prior to 7.3 as described. No specific exploit details or affected products/versions are p...

CVE-2007-1661

CVE-2007-1661 affects the Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library prior to 7.3, where backtracking can occur when matching certain input bytes against some patterns in non‑UTF‑8 mode, potentially exposing sensitive information or causing a denial of service (crash). The description expl...

CVE-2007-4768

CVE-2007-4768 describes a heap-based buffer overflow in the PCRE library (before 7.3) that can be triggered by a singleton Unicode sequence in a character class in a regex pattern, enabling context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code. Connected advisories (e.g., RHSA-2007-1126, Ubuntu U...

CVE-2007-1659

Perl-Compatible Regular Expression PCRE library before 7.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via regex patterns containing unmatched "\Q\E" sequences with orphan "\E" codes...

CVE-2007-5116

Buffer overflow in the polymorphic opcode support in the Regular Expression Engine regcomp.c in Perl 5.8 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code by switching from byte to Unicode UTF characters in a regular expression...

RHEL 3 / 4 / 5 : perl (RHSA-2007:0966)

Updated Perl packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Perl is a high-level programming language commonly used for system administration...

RHEL 4 : pcre (RHSA-2007:0968)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2007:0968 advisory. PCRE is a Perl-compatible regular expression library. Multiple flaws were found in the way pcre handles certain malformed regular expressions. If an...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : perl (MDKSA-2007:207)

Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry discovered a flaw in Perl's regular expression engine. Specially crafted input to a regular expression can cause Perl to improperly allocate memory, resulting in the possible execution of arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running Perl. Updated packages...

pcre security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2007:0968 Updated pcre packages that correct two security flaws are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. PCRE is a Perl-compatible regular...

perl security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2007:0966 Updated Perl packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Perl is a high-level programming...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: perl security update

Updated Perl packages that fix security issues for Red Hat Application Stack v1.2 are now available. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Perl is a high-level programming language commonly used for system administration utilities an...

perl regular expression UTF parsing errors

Buffer overflow in the polymorphic opcode support in the Regular Expression Engine regcomp.c in Perl 5.8 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code by switching from byte to Unicode UTF characters in a regular expression...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: perl security update

Updated Perl packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Perl is a high-level programming language commonly used for system administration...

Critical: Red Hat Security Advisory: pcre security update

Updated pcre packages that correct two security flaws are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. PCRE is a Perl-compatible regular expression library. Multiple flaws were found in the way...

pcre regular expression flaws

Perl-Compatible Regular Expression PCRE library before 7.0 does not properly calculate sizes for unspecified "multiple forms of character class", which triggers a buffer overflow that allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code...

Critical: Red Hat Security Advisory: pcre security update

Updated pcre packages that correct two security flaws are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. PCRE is a Perl-compatible regular expression library. Multiple flaws were found in the way...

Important: perl security update

5.8.5-36.el45.2.0.1 - Added patch perl-5.8.5-OEL-mock-build.patch to disable test lib/Net/t/hostname.t, so that mock build succeeds 5.8.5-36.el4.2 - Resolves: bug323791 - fix previous patch 5.8.5-36.el4.1 - Resolves: bug323791 - fix regular expression UTF parsing errors...