CVE-2009-3626 (GCVE-0-2009-3626)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-10-29 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 06:38
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Summary
Perl 5.10.1 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a UTF-8 character with a large, invalid codepoint, which is not properly handled during a regular-expression match.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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Date Public
2009-10-23 00:00
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