Integer underflow in regcomp.c in Perl before 5.20, as used in Apple OS X before 10.10.5 and other products, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long digit string associated with an invalid backreference within a regular expression.
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EUVD |
EUVD-2013-7186 | Integer underflow in regcomp.c in Perl before 5.20, as used in Apple OS X before 10.10.5 and other products, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long digit string associated with an invalid backreference within a regular expression. |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-2916-1 | Perl vulnerabilities |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-06T18:09:16.951Z
Reserved: 2015-01-27T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2013-7422
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Status : Deferred
Published: 2015-08-16T23:59:00.097
Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837
Link: CVE-2013-7422
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EUVD
Ubuntu USN