CVE-2009-3626 (GCVE-0-2009-3626)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-10-29 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 06:38
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
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
Assigner
References
11 references
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| http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3023 | vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/23/8 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://www.osvdb.org/59283 | vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB |
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… | vdb-entryx_refsource_XF |
| http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Attachment/617489/295383/ | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.c… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=69973 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/37144 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/0abd0d7… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36812 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://securitytracker.com/id?1023077 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK |
Date Public
2009-10-23 00:00
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