PT-2016-4046 · Perl+3 · Perl+3

Andrej Nemec · Published 2016-05-20 · Updated 2025-01-13 · CVE-2015-8853

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Perl versions prior to 5.24.0

Description The issue allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically an infinite loop, via crafted utf-8 data. This is demonstrated by the input "ax80".

Recommendations For versions prior to 5.24.0, update to version 5.24.0 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1157

CVE-2015-8853

MGASA-2016-0191

RHSA-2026:6206

ROSA-SA-2025-2552

SUSE-SU-2016:2246-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2263-1

SUSE-SU-2016_2246-1

SUSE-SU-2016_2263-1

SUSE-SU-2017:2699-1

SUSE-SU-2017:2700-1

USN-3625-1

USN-3625-2

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Perl

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 47

• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0191.html · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8853 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-6797 · Vendor Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8853 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-6913 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8853 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8853 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183592.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3625-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183592.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-8853 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:2263-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3625-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3625-2 · Vendor Advisory