gsd-2008-1927
Vulnerability from gsd
Modified
2023-12-13 01:23
Details
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.
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Aliases
CVE-2008-1927


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}


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