CVE-2007-5116

Published: 7 November 2007

Buffer overflow in the polymorphic opcode support in the Regular Expression Engine (regcomp.c) in Perl 5.8 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code by switching from byte to Unicode (UTF) characters in a regular expression.

Priority

Status

Package	Release	Status
perl Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	dapper	Released (5.8.7-10ubuntu1.1)
	edgy	Released (5.8.8-6ubuntu0.1)
	feisty	Released (5.8.8-7ubuntu0.1)
	gutsy	Released (5.8.8-7ubuntu3.1)
	upstream	Released (5.8.8-12)

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-552-1
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-5116
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

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