CVE-2008-1927
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:
02 Description
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:
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 3.15% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 87.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Important. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2008-04-23 17:00Z18 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 08:41Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2008-04-23
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 33238349ae67bc0bc665c8436fdb2b805b1fd7b3e9b237aab783f32c10a5945d
05 Affected products
06 References
- lists.opensuse.orgSUSE-SR:2008:017http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html
- support.avaya.comhttp://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-317.htm
- www.vupen.comADV-2008-2424http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2424
- secunia.com31328http://secunia.com/advisories/31328
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2008-3399https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00607.html
- osvdb.org44588http://osvdb.org/44588
- wiki.rpath.comhttp://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0011
- secunia.com33937http://secunia.com/advisories/33937
- rt.perl.orghttp://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=48156
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2008:0532http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0532.html
- secunia.com31687http://secunia.com/advisories/31687
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comperl-utf8-dos(41996)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41996
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-700-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-1
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:10579https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10579
- support.apple.comhttp://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438
- secunia.com29948http://secunia.com/advisories/29948
- lists.apple.comAPPLE-SA-2009-02-12http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html
- www.gentoo.orgGLSA-200805-17http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-17.xml
- www.securitytracker.com1020253http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020253
- www.vupen.comADV-2008-2361http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2361
- secunia.com31467http://secunia.com/advisories/31467
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2008:0522http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0522.html
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2008-3392https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00601.html
- support.avaya.comhttp://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-361.htm
- secunia.com33314http://secunia.com/advisories/33314
- www.vupen.comADV-2009-0422http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0422
- secunia.com31604http://secunia.com/advisories/31604
- www.vmware.comhttp://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0013.html
- bugs.debian.orghttp://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=454792
- www.securityfocus.com28928http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28928
- www.securityfocus.com20090120 rPSA-2009-0011-1 perlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500210/100/0/threaded
- secunia.com30624http://secunia.com/advisories/30624
- secunia.com30025http://secunia.com/advisories/30025
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-700-2http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-2
- secunia.com30326http://secunia.com/advisories/30326
- www.mandriva.comMDVSA-2008:100http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:100
- www.debian.orgDSA-1556http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1556
- www.ipcop.orghttp://www.ipcop.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=41
- secunia.com31208http://secunia.com/advisories/31208
- www.vupen.comADV-2008-2265http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2265/references
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- perl Fixed in 5.10.0-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- perl Fixed in 5.10.0-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- perl Fixed in 5.10.0-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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