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Out-of-Bounds Affecting perl package, versions <5.8.8-12

medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 3.35% (92nd percentile)
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NVD
7.3 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-PERL-327887
  • published 7 Nov 2007
  • disclosed 7 Nov 2007
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Introduced: 7 Nov 2007

CVE-2007-5116 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-119 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 perl to version 5.8.8-12 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.

Buffer overflow in the polymorphic opcode support in the Regular Expression Engine (regcomp.c) in Perl 5.8 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code by switching from byte to Unicode (UTF) characters in a regular expression.

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