PT-2010-2873 · Perl · Perl

Bruce Merry + 1 · Published 2010-04-20 · Updated 2013-10-24 · CVE-2010-1158

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

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.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-189

Related Identifiers

CVE-2010-1158

Affected Products

Perl

References · 8

• 🔥 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313565 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-1158 · Security Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/14/3 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/55314 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=580605 · Note
• http://perldoc.perl.org/perl5100delta.html · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-1158 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/08/9 · Note