CVE-2010-1158

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 products

• perl / perl5.8.1 – 5.8.1
• perl / perl5.8.2 – 5.8.2
• perl / perl5.8.3 – 5.8.3
• perl / perl5.8.4 – 5.8.4
• perl / perl5.8.5 – 5.8.5
• perl / perl5.8.6 – 5.8.6
• perl / perl5.8.7 – 5.8.7
• perl / perl5.8.8 – 5.8.8
• perl / perl5.8.9 – 5.8.9

References

• MISChttp://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313565
• MAILING_LISThttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/14/3
• MAILING_LISThttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/08/9
• VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/55314
• MISChttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=580605
• MISChttp://perldoc.perl.org/perl5100delta.html