CVE-2008-1927

CVE Details

Release Date:	2008-04-24
Impact:	Important	What is this?

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.

See more information about CVE-2008-1927 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

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

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	5.0
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (perl)	ELSA-2008-0522	2008-06-11
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (perl)	ELSA-2008-0522	2008-06-11
Oracle Linux version 5 (perl)	ELSA-2008-0522	2008-06-11