CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-1158
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2010-04-20
- 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-189
Description
Integer overflow in the regular expression engine in Perl 5.8.x allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and application crash) by matching a crafted regular expression against a long string.
Affected configurations
• perl perl 5.8.1
• perl perl 5.8.2
• perl perl 5.8.3
• perl perl 5.8.4
• perl perl 5.8.5
• perl perl 5.8.6
• perl perl 5.8.7
• perl perl 5.8.8
• perl perl 5.8.9
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313565 Exploit
- http://perldoc.perl.org/perl5100delta.html perldoc.perl.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55314 secunia.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/08/9 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/14/3 www.openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=580605 bugzilla.redhat.com
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313565 Exploit
- http://perldoc.perl.org/perl5100delta.html perldoc.perl.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55314 secunia.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/08/9 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/14/3 www.openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=580605 bugzilla.redhat.com