CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-1927

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2008-04-24 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-04-24
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-399

Description

Double free vulnerability in Perl 5.8.8 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via a crafted regular expression containing UTF8 characters. NOTE: this issue might only be present on certain operating systems.

Affected configurations

• perl perl 5.8.8

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References