CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-8853
7.5 HIGH
Official page ↗
- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-05-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The (1) S_reghop3, (2) S_reghop4, and (3) S_reghopmaybe3 functions in regexec.c in Perl before 5.24.0 allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via crafted utf-8 data, as demonstrated by "a\x80."
Affected configurations
• fedoraproject fedora 22
• perl perl (<= 5.23.9)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183592.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/22b433eff9a1ffa2454e18405a56650f07b385b5 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/5 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/7 www.openwall.com
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/86707 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1329106 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731 h20566.www2.hpe.com
- https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=123562 rt.perl.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-75 security.gentoo.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-2/ usn.ubuntu.com
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183592.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/22b433eff9a1ffa2454e18405a56650f07b385b5 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/5 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/7 www.openwall.com
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/86707 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1329106 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731 h20566.www2.hpe.com
- https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=123562 rt.perl.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-75 security.gentoo.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-2/ usn.ubuntu.com