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Debian Linux 2008.0 and prior [High]

By Security Team • Nov 7th, 2007 • Category: Security Notifications

Affects:

  • Debian Linux 2008.0 and prior [High]

Description

Buffer overflow in the polymorphic opcode support in the Regular Expression Engine (regcomp.c) in Perl 5.8 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code by switching from byte to Unicode (UTF) characters in a regular expression.

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CVE Identifier: CVE-2007-5116
Severity: High

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Related OLEX Packages: debian_linux
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