Upstream information

CVE-2007-5116 at MITRE

Description

Buffer overflow in the polymorphic opcode support in the Regular Expression Engine (regcomp.c) in Perl 5.8 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code by switching from byte to Unicode (UTF) characters in a regular expression.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.5
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial
SUSE Bugzilla entries: 332199 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 372331 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 915514 [RESOLVED / INVALID]

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4
  • perl-base-32bit >= 5.10.0-64.72.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 GA perl-base-32bit-5.10.0-64.72.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1
  • perl >= 5.10.0-64.47.8
  • perl-32bit >= 5.10.0-64.47.8
  • perl-base >= 5.10.0-64.47.8
  • perl-doc >= 5.10.0-64.47.8
  • perl-x86 >= 5.10.0-64.47.8
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 GA perl-32bit-5.10.0-64.47.8
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2
  • perl >= 5.10.0-64.55.1
  • perl-32bit >= 5.10.0-64.55.1
  • perl-base >= 5.10.0-64.55.1
  • perl-doc >= 5.10.0-64.55.1
  • perl-x86 >= 5.10.0-64.55.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 GA perl-32bit-5.10.0-64.55.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3
  • perl >= 5.10.0-64.67.52
  • perl-32bit >= 5.10.0-64.67.52
  • perl-Module-Build >= 0.2808.01-0.67.52
  • perl-Test-Simple >= 0.72-0.67.52
  • perl-base >= 5.10.0-64.67.52
  • perl-doc >= 5.10.0-64.67.52
  • perl-x86 >= 5.10.0-64.67.52
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 GA perl-32bit-5.10.0-64.67.52
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
  • perl >= 5.10.0-64.72.1
  • perl-32bit >= 5.10.0-64.72.1
  • perl-Module-Build >= 0.2808.01-0.72.1
  • perl-Test-Simple >= 0.72-0.72.1
  • perl-base >= 5.10.0-64.72.1
  • perl-base-32bit >= 5.10.0-64.72.1
  • perl-doc >= 5.10.0-64.72.1
  • perl-x86 >= 5.10.0-64.72.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 GA perl-32bit-5.10.0-64.72.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 GA perl-base-32bit-5.10.0-64.72.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0
  • perl >= 5.42.0-160000.2.2
  • perl-base >= 5.42.0-160000.2.2
  • perl-doc >= 5.42.0-160000.2.2
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 GA perl-5.42.0-160000.2.2
SUSE Linux Micro 6.0
  • perl >= 5.38.2-1.52
  • perl-base >= 5.38.2-1.52
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Micro 6.0 GA perl-5.38.2-1.52
SUSE Linux Micro 6.1
  • perl >= 5.38.2-slfo.1.1_1.4
  • perl-base >= 5.38.2-slfo.1.1_1.4
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Micro 6.1 GA perl-5.38.2-slfo.1.1_1.4
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • perl >= 5.34.0-1.1
  • perl-32bit >= 5.34.0-1.1
  • perl-base >= 5.34.0-1.1
  • perl-base-32bit >= 5.34.0-1.1
  • perl-doc >= 5.34.0-1.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-11158

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 16:10:10 2013
CVE page last modified: Sun Nov 2 12:18:06 2025