CVE-2013-7422 (GCVE-0-2013-7422)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-08-16 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 18:09
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/0c2990d… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-11 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2916-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT205031 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75704 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Date Public
2013-10-17 00:00
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