CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-5116

7.5 HIGH Published 2007-11-07 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-11-07
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-119

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• larry wall perl 5.8.0 • larry wall perl 5.8.1 • larry wall perl 5.8.3 • larry wall perl 5.8.4 • larry wall perl 5.8.4.1 • larry wall perl 5.8.4.2 • larry wall perl 5.8.4.2.3 • larry wall perl 5.8.4.3 • larry wall perl 5.8.4.4 • larry wall perl 5.8.4.5 • larry wall perl 5.8.6 • mandrakesoft mandrake multi network firewall 2.0 • openpkg openpkg current • redhat enterprise linux 1.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References