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ID CVE-2008-1927
Summary 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.
References
Vulnerable Configurations
  • cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.8.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.8.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVSS
Base: 5.0 (as of 11-10-2018 - 20:37)
Impact:
Exploitability:
CWE CWE-399
CAPEC
Access
VectorComplexityAuthentication
NETWORK LOW NONE
Impact
ConfidentialityIntegrityAvailability
NONE NONE PARTIAL
cvss-vector via4 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
oval via4
accepted 2013-04-29T04:06:50.584-04:00
class vulnerability
contributors
  • name Aharon Chernin
    organization SCAP.com, LLC
  • name Dragos Prisaca
    organization G2, Inc.
definition_extensions
  • comment The operating system installed on the system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
    oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11782
  • comment CentOS Linux 3.x
    oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16651
  • comment The operating system installed on the system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
    oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11831
  • comment CentOS Linux 4.x
    oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16636
  • comment Oracle Linux 4.x
    oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15990
  • comment The operating system installed on the system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
    oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11414
  • comment The operating system installed on the system is CentOS Linux 5.x
    oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15802
  • comment Oracle Linux 5.x
    oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15459
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.
family unix
id oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10579
status accepted
submitted 2010-07-09T03:56:16-04:00
title 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.
version 30
redhat via4
advisories
  • bugzilla
    id 443928
    title CVE-2008-1927 perl: heap corruption by regular expressions with utf8 characters
    oval
    OR
    • comment Red Hat Enterprise Linux must be installed
      oval oval:com.redhat.rhba:tst:20070304026
    • AND
      • comment Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 is installed
        oval oval:com.redhat.rhba:tst:20070304025
      • OR
        • AND
          • comment perl is earlier than 3:5.8.5-36.el4_6.3
            oval oval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20080522001
          • comment perl is signed with Red Hat master key
            oval oval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20060605002
        • AND
          • comment perl-suidperl is earlier than 3:5.8.5-36.el4_6.3
            oval oval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20080522003
          • comment perl-suidperl is signed with Red Hat master key
            oval oval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20060605004
    • AND
      • comment Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is installed
        oval oval:com.redhat.rhba:tst:20070331005
      • OR
        • AND
          • comment perl is earlier than 4:5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
            oval oval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20080522006
          • comment perl is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease key
            oval oval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20070966007
        • AND
          • comment perl-suidperl is earlier than 4:5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
            oval oval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20080522008
          • comment perl-suidperl is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease key
            oval oval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20070966009
    rhsa
    id RHSA-2008:0522
    released 2008-06-11
    severity Important
    title RHSA-2008:0522: perl security update (Important)
  • rhsa
    id RHSA-2008:0532
rpms
  • perl-2:5.8.0-98.EL3
  • perl-3:5.8.5-36.el4_6.3
  • perl-4:5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
  • perl-CGI-2:2.89-98.EL3
  • perl-CPAN-2:1.61-98.EL3
  • perl-DB_File-2:1.806-98.EL3
  • perl-debuginfo-2:5.8.0-98.EL3
  • perl-debuginfo-3:5.8.5-36.el4_6.3
  • perl-debuginfo-4:5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
  • perl-suidperl-2:5.8.0-98.EL3
  • perl-suidperl-3:5.8.5-36.el4_6.3
  • perl-suidperl-4:5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
  • perl-4:5.8.8-6.el4s1_3
  • perl-debuginfo-4:5.8.8-6.el4s1_3
  • perl-suidperl-4:5.8.8-6.el4s1_3
  • ant-0:1.6.5-1jpp_1rh
  • avalon-logkit-0:1.2-2jpp_4rh
  • axis-0:1.2.1-1jpp_3rh
  • classpathx-jaf-0:1.0-2jpp_6rh
  • classpathx-mail-0:1.1.1-2jpp_8rh
  • geronimo-ejb-2.1-api-0:1.0-0.M4.1jpp_10rh
  • geronimo-j2ee-1.4-apis-0:1.0-0.M4.1jpp_10rh
  • geronimo-j2ee-connector-1.5-api-0:1.0-0.M4.1jpp_10rh
  • geronimo-j2ee-deployment-1.1-api-0:1.0-0.M4.1jpp_10rh
  • geronimo-j2ee-management-1.0-api-0:1.0-0.M4.1jpp_10rh
  • geronimo-jms-1.1-api-0:1.0-0.M4.1jpp_10rh
  • geronimo-jsp-2.0-api-0:1.0-0.M4.1jpp_10rh
  • geronimo-jta-1.0.1B-api-0:1.0-0.M4.1jpp_10rh
  • geronimo-servlet-2.4-api-0:1.0-0.M4.1jpp_10rh
  • geronimo-specs-0:1.0-0.M4.1jpp_10rh
  • geronimo-specs-javadoc-0:1.0-0.M4.1jpp_10rh
  • jakarta-commons-modeler-0:2.0-3jpp_2rh
  • log4j-0:1.2.12-1jpp_1rh
  • mx4j-1:3.0.1-1jpp_4rh
  • pcsc-lite-0:1.3.3-3.el4
  • pcsc-lite-debuginfo-0:1.3.3-3.el4
  • pcsc-lite-doc-0:1.3.3-3.el4
  • pcsc-lite-libs-0:1.3.3-3.el4
  • rhpki-ca-0:7.3.0-20.el4
  • rhpki-java-tools-0:7.3.0-10.el4
  • rhpki-kra-0:7.3.0-14.el4
  • rhpki-manage-0:7.3.0-19.el4
  • rhpki-native-tools-0:7.3.0-6.el4
  • rhpki-ocsp-0:7.3.0-13.el4
  • rhpki-tks-0:7.3.0-13.el4
  • tomcat5-0:5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.16
  • tomcat5-common-lib-0:5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.16
  • tomcat5-jasper-0:5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.16
  • tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-0:5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.16
  • tomcat5-server-lib-0:5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.16
  • tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-0:5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.16
  • xerces-j2-0:2.7.1-1jpp_1rh
  • xml-commons-0:1.3.02-2jpp_1rh
  • xml-commons-apis-0:1.3.02-2jpp_1rh
refmap via4
apple APPLE-SA-2009-02-12
bid 28928
bugtraq 20090120 rPSA-2009-0011-1 perl
confirm
debian DSA-1556
fedora
  • FEDORA-2008-3392
  • FEDORA-2008-3399
gentoo GLSA-200805-17
mandriva MDVSA-2008:100
misc http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=48156
osvdb 44588
sectrack 1020253
secunia
  • 29948
  • 30025
  • 30326
  • 30624
  • 31208
  • 31328
  • 31467
  • 31604
  • 31687
  • 33314
  • 33937
suse SUSE-SR:2008:017
ubuntu
  • USN-700-1
  • USN-700-2
vupen
  • ADV-2008-2265
  • ADV-2008-2361
  • ADV-2008-2424
  • ADV-2009-0422
xf perl-utf8-dos(41996)
Last major update 11-10-2018 - 20:37
Published 24-04-2008 - 05:05
Last modified 11-10-2018 - 20:37
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