[OpenPKG-SA-2007.023] OpenPKG Security Advisory (perl)
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Publisher Name: OpenPKG GmbH
Publisher Home: http://openpkg.com/
Advisory Id (public): OpenPKG-SA-2007.023
Advisory Type: OpenPKG Security Advisory (SA)
Advisory Directory: http://openpkg.com/go/OpenPKG-SA
Advisory Document: http://openpkg.com/go/OpenPKG-SA-2007.023
Advisory Published: 2007-11-08 08:52 UTC
Issue Id (internal): OpenPKG-SI-20071108.01
Issue First Created: 2007-11-08
Issue Last Modified: 2007-11-08
Issue Revision: 01
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Subject Name: perl
Subject Summary: Programming Language
Subject Home: http://www.perl.com/
Subject Versions: 5.* <= 5.8.8
Vulnerability Id: CVE-2007-5116
Vulnerability Scope: global (not OpenPKG specific)
Attack Feasibility: run-time
Attack Vector: remote network
Attack Impact: arbitrary code execution
Description:
Will Drewry and Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team have
discovered a UTF-8 related heap overflow in the regular expression
compiler of the Perl [0] programming language, probably allowing
attackers to execute arbitrary code by compiling specially crafted
regular expressions. The bug manifests in a possible buffer overflow
in the polymorphic "opcode" support code, caused by ASCII regular
expressions that really are Unicode regular expressions.
References:
[0] http://www.perl.com/
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Primary Package Name: perl
Primary Package Home: http://openpkg.org/go/package/perl
Corrected Distribution: Corrected Branch: Corrected Package:
OpenPKG Community CURRENT perl-5.8.8-20071108
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