FKIE_CVE-2009-3626

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2009-10-29 14:30 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:12
Severity
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/0abd0d78a73da1c4d13b1c700526b7e5d03b32d4Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=69973
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Attachment/617489/295383/
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/37144Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://securitytracker.com/id?1023077
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/23/8
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.osvdb.org/59283
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36812
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3023Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53939
secalert@redhat.comhttps://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6225
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/0abd0d78a73da1c4d13b1c700526b7e5d03b32d4Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=69973
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Attachment/617489/295383/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/37144Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://securitytracker.com/id?1023077
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/23/8
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.osvdb.org/59283
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36812
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3023Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53939
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6225
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
perl perl 5.10.1
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