CVE-2013-7422
First published: Sun Aug 16 2015(Updated: )
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.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Apple Mac OS X | <=10.10.4 | |
| Perl Perl | =5.18.4 |
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Reference Links
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Aug/msg00001.html
- http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/0c2990d652e985784f095bba4bc356481a66aa06
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75704
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2916-1
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-11
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT205031
- collector/nvd-index
- agent/author
- agent/severity
- agent/references
- agent/tags
- agent/type
- agent/event
- agent/weakness
- agent/description
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/first-publish-date
- vendor/apple
- canonical/apple mac os x
- version/apple mac os x/10.10.4
- vendor/perl
- canonical/perl perl
- version/perl perl/5.18.4