FKIE_CVE-2013-7422

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2015-08-16 23:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:01
Severity
Summary
Integer underflow in regcomp.c in Perl before 5.20, as used in Apple OS X before 10.10.5 and other products, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long digit string associated with an invalid backreference within a regular expression.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Aug/msg00001.htmlVendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/0c2990d652e985784f095bba4bc356481a66aa06
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75704
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2916-1
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-11
secalert@redhat.comhttps://support.apple.com/kb/HT205031Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Aug/msg00001.htmlVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/0c2990d652e985784f095bba4bc356481a66aa06
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75704
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2916-1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-11
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://support.apple.com/kb/HT205031Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
apple mac_os_x *
perl perl 5.18.4
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