Resource Management Errors Affecting perl package, versions <5.10.0-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.04% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-PERL-327797
  • published24 Apr 2008
  • disclosed24 Apr 2008

Introduced: 24 Apr 2008

CVE-2008-1927  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 perl to version 5.10.0-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perl package and not the perl package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

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