Description
Perl 5.10.1 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a UTF-8 character with a large, invalid codepoint, which is not properly handled during a regular-expression match.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3023 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/23/8 ↗
- http://www.osvdb.org/59283 ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53939 ↗
- http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Attachment/617489/295383/ ↗
- https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6225 ↗
- http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=69973 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37144 ↗
- http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/0abd0d78a73da1c4d13b1c700526b7e5d03b32d4 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36812 ↗
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1023077 ↗