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.
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DSA-1400-1 | New perl packages fix arbitrary code execution |
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USN-552-1 | Perl vulnerability |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-07T15:17:28.328Z
Reserved: 2007-09-27T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2007-5116

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2007-11-07T23:46:00.000
Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490
Link: CVE-2007-5116


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