PT-2007-6212 · Perl+1 · Perl+1

Published 2007-11-05 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2007-5116

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Perl 5.8

Description The issue is related to a buffer overflow in the polymorphic opcode support in the Regular Expression Engine. This allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code by switching from byte to Unicode (UTF) characters in a regular expression.

Recommendations For Perl 5.8, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-5116

DSA-1400-1

DTSA-78-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11158-1

RHSA-2007:0966

RHSA-2007:1011

RHSA-2007_0966

RHSA-2010:0602

Affected Products

Perl

Red Hat

References · 70

• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1011.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:11158-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ10244 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5116 · Security Note
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=120352263023774&w=2 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_24_sr.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-552-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0966.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-31524-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2007-5116 · Vendor Advisory
• http://gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-28.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1400 · Vendor Advisory
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1018985.1-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-231524-1 · Vendor Advisory