CVE-2008-1927

Publication date 24 April 2008

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Double free vulnerability in Perl 5.8.8 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via a crafted regular expression containing UTF8 characters. NOTE: this issue might only be present on certain operating systems.

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Status

No maintained releases are affected by this CVE.

Package Ubuntu Release Status
perl 8.10 intrepid
Not affected
8.04 LTS hardy
Fixed 5.8.8-12ubuntu0.3
7.10 gutsy
Fixed 5.8.8-7ubuntu3.4
7.04 feisty Ignored end of life, was needed
6.06 LTS dapper
Fixed 5.8.7-10ubuntu1.2

Notes

jdstrand

perl (at least 5.8 and 5.10) segfault on x86_64 verified all releases -- i386 not affected, x86_64 is affected

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package Patch details
perl

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-700-1
    • Perl vulnerabilities
    • 24 December 2008

Other references