Upstream information

CVE-2010-1158 at MITRE

Description

Integer overflow in the regular expression engine in Perl 5.8.x allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and application crash) by matching a crafted regular expression against a long string.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 5
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 595111 [RESOLVED / WONTFIX]

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 16:56:40 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Oct 7 12:45:53 2022