CVE-2010-1158

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

Integer overflow in the regular expression engine in Perl 5.8.x allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and application crash) by matching a crafted regular expression against a long string.

Integer overflow in the regular expression engine in Perl 5.8.x allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and application crash) by matching a crafted regular expression against a long string.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

Perl

First reported 15 years ago

2010-04-20 15:30:00

Last updated 11 years ago

2013-10-24 03:22:00

Affected Software

Perl 5.8.1

5.8.1

Perl 5.8.2

5.8.2

Perl 5.8.3

5.8.3

Perl 5.8.4

5.8.4

Perl 5.8.5

5.8.5

Perl 5.8.6

5.8.6

Perl 5.8.7

5.8.7

Perl 5.8.8

5.8.8

Perl 5.8.9

5.8.9

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313565

Exploit

http://perldoc.perl.org/perl5100delta.html

55314

[oss-security] 20100408 CVE Request -- perl v5.8.* -- stack overflow by processing certain regex (Gentoo BTS#313565 / RH BZ#580605)

[oss-security] 20100414 Re: CVE Request -- perl v5.8.* -- stack overflow by processing certain regex (Gentoo BTS#313565 / RH BZ#580605)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=580605

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