PublicDateAtUSN: 2016-05-25
Candidate: CVE-2015-8853
PublicDate: 2016-05-25 15:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8853
 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/5
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3625-1
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3625-2
Description:
 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."
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=821848
 https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=123562
Priority: low
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H [7.5 HIGH]

Patches_perl:
 upstream: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/22b433eff9a1ffa2454e18405a56650f07b385b5
 upstream: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/d820a0ff34c7df39297a54193fd756bb42c5c06e
upstream_perl: released (5.22.1-1)
precise_perl: ignored (reached end-of-life)
precise/esm_perl: released (5.14.2-6ubuntu2.7)
trusty_perl: released (5.18.2-2ubuntu1.4)
trusty/esm_perl: released (5.18.2-2ubuntu1.4)
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_perl: ignored (reached end-of-life)
vivid/ubuntu-core_perl: ignored (reached end-of-life)
wily_perl: ignored (reached end-of-life)
xenial_perl: not-affected (5.22.1-9)
esm-infra/xenial_perl: not-affected (5.22.1-9)
yakkety_perl: not-affected (5.22.1-9)
zesty_perl: not-affected (5.22.1-9)
artful_perl: not-affected (5.22.1-9)
devel_perl: not-affected (5.22.1-9)