CVE-2010-1158
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5 · CWE-189
5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
Integer overflow in the regular expression engine in Perl 5.8.x allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and application crash) by matching a crafted regular expression against a long string.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)2%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://perldoc.perl.org/perl5100delta.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55314
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/08/9
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/14/3
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=580605
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313565Exploit