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.
2010-04-20T15:30:00.427
2025-04-11T00:51:21.963
Deferred
CVSSv2: 5.0 (MEDIUM)
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
10.0
2.9
Type | Vendor | Product | Version/Range | Vulnerable? |
---|---|---|---|---|
Application | perl | perl | 5.8.1 | Yes |
Application | perl | perl | 5.8.2 | Yes |
Application | perl | perl | 5.8.3 | Yes |
Application | perl | perl | 5.8.4 | Yes |
Application | perl | perl | 5.8.5 | Yes |
Application | perl | perl | 5.8.6 | Yes |
Application | perl | perl | 5.8.7 | Yes |
Application | perl | perl | 5.8.8 | Yes |
Application | perl | perl | 5.8.9 | Yes |