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 products
- perl / perl5.8.8 – 5.8.8
References
- MAILING_LISThttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html
- MISChttp://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-317.htm
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2424
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/31328
- MISChttps://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00607.html
- MISChttp://osvdb.org/44588
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0011
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/33937
- MISChttp://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=48156
- MISChttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0532.html
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/31687
- MISChttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41996
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-1
- MISChttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10579
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/29948
- MAILING_LISThttp://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html
- MISChttp://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-17.xml
- MISChttp://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020253
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2361
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/31467
- MISChttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0522.html
- MISChttps://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00601.html
- MISChttp://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-361.htm
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/33314
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0422
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/31604
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0013.html
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=454792
- MISChttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28928
- MISChttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500210/100/0/threaded
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/30624
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/30025
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-2
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/30326
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:100
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1556
- MISChttp://www.ipcop.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=41
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/31208
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2265/references
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