CVE-2008-1927: Double Free
First published: Wed Apr 23 2008(Updated: )
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.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Perl Perl | =5.8.8 |
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Reference Links
- http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=48156
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=454792
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1556
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00601.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00607.html
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-17.xml
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28928
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29948
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30025
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30326
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020253
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0522.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30624
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-317.htm
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-361.htm
- http://www.ipcop.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=41
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31467
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31604
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31208
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31328
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0013.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0532.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31687
- http://osvdb.org/44588
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:100
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-1
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33314
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0011
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-2
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33937
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0422
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2361
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2424
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2265/references
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41996
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10579
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500210/100/0/threaded
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- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/first-publish-date
- agent/tags
- collector/mitre-cve
- source/MITRE
- vendor/perl
- canonical/perl perl
- version/perl perl/5.8.8