Perl · Perl · CVE-2010-1158
**Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions**
Perl versions 5.8.x
**Description**
The issue is related to an integer overflow in the regular expression engine, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service by matching a crafted regular expression against a long string, resulting in stack consumption and application crash.
**Recommendations**
For Perl version 5.8.x, update to a version that fixes the integer overflow issue in the regular expression engine to prevent denial of service attacks.