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CVE-2015-8853 (GCVE-0-2015-8853)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-05-25 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:29
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Summary
The (1) S_reghop3, (2) S_reghop4, and (3) S_reghopmaybe3 functions in regexec.c in Perl before 5.24.0 allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via crafted utf-8 data, as demonstrated by "a\x80."
CWE
  • n/a
Date Public
2015-01-07 00:00
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