CVE-2008-1927 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-1927
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Description: Double free vulnerability in Perl 5.8.8 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via a crafted regular expression containing UTF8 characters. NOTE: this issue might only be present on certain operating systems.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/41996 UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-2 SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html ST 1020253 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA31467 Secunia Advisory: SA31328 Secunia Advisory: SA31208 Secunia Advisory: SA30624 Secunia Advisory: SA30326 Secunia Advisory: SA30025 Secunia Advisory: SA29948 Secunia Advisory: SA31604 Secunia Advisory: SA31687 Secunia Advisory: SA33314 Secunia Advisory: SA33937 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0522.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0532.html OSVDB 44588 MISC http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=48156 MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:100 GENTOO http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-17.xml FEDORA DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1556 CONFIRM http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0011 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=454792 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-361.htm http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-317.htm http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0013.html http://www.ipcop.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=41 BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/500210/100/0/threaded BID 28928 APPLE http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html

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