CVE-2008-1927

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.

Category

5.0
CVSS
Severity: Medium
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 3.96% Top 15%
Vendor Advisory opensuse.org Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory ubuntu.com Vendor Advisory apple.com Vendor Advisory gentoo.org Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory ubuntu.com Vendor Advisory mandriva.com Vendor Advisory debian.org
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html vendor advisory
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-317.htm
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2424 vdb entry
http://secunia.com/advisories/31328 third party advisory
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00607.html vendor advisory
http://osvdb.org/44588 vdb entry
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0011
http://secunia.com/advisories/33937 third party advisory
http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=48156
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0532.html vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/31687 third party advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41996 vdb entry
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-1 vendor advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10579 vdb entry signature
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438
http://secunia.com/advisories/29948 third party advisory
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html vendor advisory
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-17.xml vendor advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020253 vdb entry
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2361 vdb entry
http://secunia.com/advisories/31467 third party advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0522.html vendor advisory
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00601.html vendor advisory
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-361.htm
http://secunia.com/advisories/33314 third party advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0422 vdb entry
http://secunia.com/advisories/31604 third party advisory
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0013.html
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=454792
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28928 vdb entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500210/100/0/threaded mailing list
http://secunia.com/advisories/30624 third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/30025 third party advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-2 vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/30326 third party advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:100 vendor advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1556 vendor advisory
http://www.ipcop.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=41
http://secunia.com/advisories/31208 third party advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2265/references vdb entry

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2008-1927?
CVE-2008-1927 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2008-1927?
To fix CVE-2008-1927, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2008-1927 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2008-1927 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~4% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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