fkie_cve-2015-8853
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2016-05-25 15:59
Modified
2025-04-12 10:46
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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."
References
security@debian.orghttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183592.html
security@debian.orghttp://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/22b433eff9a1ffa2454e18405a56650f07b385b5Vendor Advisory
security@debian.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/5
security@debian.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/7
security@debian.orghttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
security@debian.orghttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html
security@debian.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/86707
security@debian.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1329106
security@debian.orghttps://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731
security@debian.orghttps://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=123562
security@debian.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-75
security@debian.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-1/
security@debian.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-2/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183592.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/22b433eff9a1ffa2454e18405a56650f07b385b5Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/5
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/7
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/86707
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1329106
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=123562
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-75
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-1/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-2/
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
fedoraproject fedora 22
perl perl *


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