CVE-2007-5116

CVE Details

Release Date:	2007-11-07
Impact:	Important	What is this?

Description

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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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	7.5
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	Partial
Integrity Impact:	Partial
Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (perl)	ELSA-2007-0966	2007-11-05
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (perl)	ELSA-2007-0966	2007-11-05
Oracle Linux version 5 (perl)	ELSA-2007-0966	2007-11-05