CVE-2008-1927 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2008-1927 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 381901 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2008:017, published Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 03:54:45 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:26:06 2023