CVE-2009-3626 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Perl 5.10.1 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a UTF-8 character with a large, invalid codepoint, which is not properly handled during a regular-expression match.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01313.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Perl	Perl

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.10.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2009-3607	Perl 5.10.1 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a UTF-8 character with a large, invalid codepoint, which is not properly handled during a regular-expression match.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/0abd0d78a73da1c4d13b1c700526b7e5d03b32d4
http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=69973
http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Attachment/617489/295383/
http://secunia.com/advisories/37144
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023077
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/23/8
http://www.osvdb.org/59283
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36812
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3023
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53939
https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6225

History

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2009-10-29T14:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T06:38:28.468Z

Reserved: 2009-10-09T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2009-3626

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2009-10-29T14:30:01.170

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2009-3626

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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