Upstream information
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: this issue might only be present on certain operating systems.SUSE information
Overall state of this security issue: Resolved
This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.
National Vulnerability Database | |
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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 Security Advisories:
- SUSE-SR:2008:017, published Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:00:00 +0000
SUSE Timeline for this CVE
CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 03:54:45 2013CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:26:06 2023