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perl: heap buffer overflow
| Package(s): | perl | CVE #(s): | CVE-2008-1927 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Created: | April 25, 2008 | Updated: | June 18, 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description: | From the Debian advisory: It has been discovered that the Perl interpreter may encounter a buffer overflow condition when compiling certain regular expressions containing Unicode characters. This also happens if the offending characters are contained in a variable reference protected by the \Q...\E quoting construct. When encountering this condition, the Perl interpreter typically crashes, but arbitrary code execution cannot be ruled out. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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