CVE-2007-5116

Perl 5.8 - Buffer Overflow in Regular Expression Engine via UTF Character Switch

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (53)

Core 53
Core References
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/27479
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1400
Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_hp
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=120352263023774&w=2
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4238
US Government Resource third-party-advisory x_refsource_cert
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html
Various Sources vendor-advisory x_refsource_aixapar
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ10244
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/27936
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483563/100/0/threaded
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/28993
Various Sources vendor-advisory x_refsource_aixapar
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ10220
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1813
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_sunalert
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-31524-1
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-552-1
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10669
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://securitytracker.com/id?1018899
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0641
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/27756
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0966.html
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/29074
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485936/100/0/threaded
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/27548
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1011.html
Various Sources mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000002.html
Issue Tracking x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=323571
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/27546
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-28.xml
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3724
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_openpkg
http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.023.html
Issue Tracking x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=378131
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_sunalert
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-231524-1
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/27531
Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_apple
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/27515
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/27570
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/27613
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/28368
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_24_sr.html
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_sunalert
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1018985.1-1
Patch vendor-advisory x_refsource_mandriva
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:207
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4255
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483584/100/0/threaded
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38270
Various Sources x_refsource_confirm
ftp://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/README
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/31208
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/28387
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0064
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/28167
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26350
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/486859/100/0/threaded

Scores

EPSS 0.0483
EPSS Percentile 91.0%

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (14)
larry_wall/perl 5.8.0
larry_wall/perl 5.8.1
larry_wall/perl 5.8.3
larry_wall/perl 5.8.4
larry_wall/perl 5.8.4.1
larry_wall/perl 5.8.4.2
larry_wall/perl 5.8.4.2.3
larry_wall/perl 5.8.4.3
larry_wall/perl 5.8.4.4
larry_wall/perl 5.8.4.5
... and 4 more
Published Nov 07, 2007
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026