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HistoryOct 16, 2015 - 12:00 a.m.

K17443 : Perl vulnerability CVE-2007-5116

2015-10-1600:00:00
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10

9.6 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.034 Low

EPSS

Percentile

91.5%

Security Advisory Description

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. (CVE-2007-5116)

Impact

There may be reduced performance and/or interruptions to resource availability.